#338: Using cibuildwheel to manage the scikit-HEP packages

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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How do you build and maintain a complex suite of Python packages? Of course, you want to put them on PyPI. The best format there is as a wheel. This means that when developers use your code, it comes straight down and requires no local tooling to install and use.

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0:00.0	How do you build and maintain a complex suite of Python packages?
0:03.8	Of course, you want to put them on PiPI.
0:06.2	The best format there is as a wheel.
0:08.8	This means that when developers use your code, it comes straight down and requires no local
0:13.0	tooling to install and use.
0:14.9	But if you have complex dependencies, such as C or Fortran, then you have a big challenge.
0:20.2	How do you automatically compile and test against Linux, MacOS, that's Intel and Apple Silicon,
0:27.1	Windows, 32 and 64-bit, and so on.
0:31.0	That's the problem solved by CI Build Wheel.
0:34.2	On this episode, you'll meet Henry Shrinner.
0:36.4	He's developing tools for the next era of
0:38.4	the Large Hadron Collider and is an admin of Scikit Hep. Of course, CI Build Wheel is central to that
0:45.7	process. This is Talk Python. Episode 338 recorded October 14th, 2021.
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