Re: Wheels for Linux

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Robin Dunn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah I tried going that route first, and while it is a great idea, I think
> it is just too low-level to be doable for something like wxPython.  In
> addition to GTK it would also need to include pango, gstreamer, freetype
> font libraries, webkit, and the list goes on and on.  The end result could
> easily end up being 10 times more non-wxPython code than there is wxPython
> code.
>

well, yeah. Which is why I gave up on wheels a while back, and have gone to
conda.

conda is designed to support these kinds of complex stacks, and either
defaults or conda-forge already provides many (most?) of those libraries,
and could provide them all if fairly easily.

I've been hoping to put up a wxPhoenix recipe one of these days. maybe
someone else would like to give it a shot?

https://conda-forge.github.io/#add_recipe

-CHB

Hopefully manylinux2 will include more in the base requirements that will
> make it easier to build upon for wxPython.
>

what with GTK and all -- seems pretty ambitious! conda takes a similar tack
for linux -- assuming a base linux system, but then it has a good mechanism
for all the libs you might want on top of that.

-CHB


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