[ITK] SimpleITK Python wheels?

[Matt McCormick]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Matt McCormick
> <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> The just-released SimpleITK 0.10.0 has OSX and manylinux wheels in
>> addition to Windows wheels.
>
> Ah - yes - I saw 0.10.0 - but the only wheels on pypi are Windows
> wheels - unless I'm looking at the wrong page:
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SimpleITK/0.10.0
>
> I couldn't see any 0.10.0 wheels at
> https://itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/PyDownloadPage.html or
> http://www.simpleitk.org//SimpleITK/resources/software.html .

The wheels are currently on Sourceforge -- we will work on getting
them on PyPI and updating the documentation:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleitk/files/SimpleITK/0.10.0/Python/


> I did try installing the 0.9.1 wheel via the sourceforge address, but
> that failed at the download step, so I had to download manually.
>
> I would really help if the wheels were up on pypi - it's generally
> very reliable and fast, and it's where people are expecting to find
> them.
>
>> We are working on improved wheel support in SimpleITK and also
>> hopefully ITK, VTK, symengine, pyne, matplotlib... with the
>> scikit-build project:
>>
>>   https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build
>>
>> We made many strides since the 2016 SciPy conference. Additional
>> community collaboration and contributions are welcome :-).
>
> Good to know - thanks for the pointer.
>
> Here is my current machinery for building and testing manylinux and
> OSX wheels : https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild - it's
> currently in use for numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, h5py and
> others,

Very cool! Hopefully we can re-use and build upon it.

Thanks,
Matt