please provide pip package(s) with wheel for python3.x

[dazza-codes]

Could this project provide pip packages with binary wheels for any python3.x?

[calestyo]

Seems to be implemented by pull request #94.

[jmr]

Do you mean we should provide binary packages, or we should provide a make target that builds binary packages?

[calestyo]

Berhaps both?

Official binary packages at pip, would make life easier for people using that.
While a make target could help people to get it packaged in distros.

[dazza-codes]

Many pip wheels with binaries are using the build CI/CD framework from https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild

• e.g. https://github.com/sgillies/fiona-wheels

[dazza-codes]

Related packaging attempts, not necessary directly built or published from this repo

• https://pypi.org/project/s2geometry/
  • from https://github.com/figroc/s2geometry (the fork is out of sync, could be abandoned)
  • it refers to inspiration from https://github.com/mira/s2-py
• https://pypi.org/project/s2sphere/
  • pure python implementation
  • works OK, but cannot guarantee consistency with this project
  • lacks performance of C

It would be ideal to get s2geometry with numpy.ufunc integrations, or integrations with pygeos 🙏

• the R project also has wrappers (c++), e.g. https://r-spatial.github.io/s2/