Please provide Linux wheels

[janlarres]

This library currently takes about three minutes to install due to having to build the C extensions. This is rather inconvenient in a CI environment because it slows down builds unnecessarily. Would it be possible to build Python 3 Linux wheels when creating a new release to avoid this? Thanks!

[emord]

@majutsushi Thanks for the issue report!

Is it possible to include libraries reliably in python 3 for linux? In #151 (comment) I mentioned that I did not think it is possible, but that I might be incorrect. If you can provide some steps for us to follow (preferably include py2 instructions as well) we'll be happy to change our processes to provide these.

Also from the above ticket, it may be that it takes 3 minutes to install due to also having Cython installed which means that it is also performing pyx -> c transform. If you don't have any needs to have Cython installed in your downstream project, you may see some much lower build times

[098799]

This started to happen on python 3.7 for us. 3.6 was quick and painless.

[emord]

Our builds for 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 all seem to be in the same ball park

Do either of you have a project that can be used to reproduce the issue you're experiencing?

[PeterJCLaw]

Is it possible to include libraries reliably in python 3 for linux?

It should be possible -- large projects such as numpy manage it for example. Unfortunately I don't know what's involved in actually doing so (and I'm not sure I'd suggest looking at numpy's build systems given the complexity I expect they have is considerably more than this project needs). PyYAML might be a simpler starting point (compiled C, but no Cython I don't think).

[PeterJCLaw]

I recently discovered https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/, which looks like it could help with this.