Python 3.6 wheels

[graingert]

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[mcherm]

Help! How is this not resolved since February?

[graingert]

Presumably because wheels are complicated for compiled python libraries and that this is a volunteer run project?

[mcherm]

Oh sorry, no offense intended. It's not that I mean to demand things from a volunteer team, but just that I was surprised. First, I didn't realize that wheel files were difficult to generate (I don't know much about packaging). And second, it seems like it would have a big impact as it means anyone using the latest Python cannot install from PyPi (or at least that was the symptom I had).

I did get past the problem by checking out the source and building myself. The C build failed (due to my system surely) but it fell back to the pure Python implementation which meets my needs.

Thanks!

[partounian]

How can I help make this happen?

[samuelcolvin]

+1 this it would be great.

For clarity, not sure why @mcherm was having problems install from pypi, normal install with pip install pyyaml works fine on 3.6, however the libyaml c build doesn't occur without the wheel AFAIK.

https://github.com/joerick/cibuildwheel give instructions on building wheels using CI, surely that would be the way to do it?

Associated question: is there a way to get the libyaml c extension to build when installing from pip, eg. a package i need to installed?

I'm on ubuntu and already tried installing libyaml-dev and libyaml-0-2.

[ingydotnet]

Planning a new pyyaml release. Will try to include wheels. Guidance appreciated.

See also: #102 (comment)

[ingydotnet]

PyYAML-3.13 is out and we can build wheels properly now for all relevant python versions.

Big thanks to @nitzmahone !!