[request] Ship wheels too

[henryiii]

Could you please also include a wheel when releasing bashlex? Only the classic ".egg" is provided, so this triggers a SDist install (I don't think .egg's are used anymore, setuptools-scm is the only other package I know still also providing an egg). See reasons listed here: https://pythonwheels.com for why wheels are nice, even for pure-python packages (faster, better security, pre-generates .pyc's, etc). Thank you!

pip wheel . will make one, or use pip install build && python -m build (may be best with a pyproject.toml too, which is also a good idea, but I think it works in legacy mode for simple packages).

[henryiii]

Cross reference: pypa/cibuildwheel#494, specifically I list reasons to ship a Python wheel in more detail in pypa/cibuildwheel#494 (comment) .

[idank]

Hey, I'm happy to do this, but can't spare cycles to change my process. Can you please check https://github.com/idank/bashlex#releasing-a-new-version and let me know what commands need to run instead?

[henryiii]

Two possibilities. The simplest one:

Add pip install wheel to your environment. Then either replace or augment bdist_egg with bdist_wheel. You might need to add universal to support Python 2.

The better one:

Add a pyproject.toml (the default one is likely fine), pip install build, and then replace the python setup.py bdist_egg sdist line with python -m build. This will place an sdist and a wheel in /dist. Nothing else is needed and it's easy for anyone to replicate. See https://scikit-hep.org/developer/packaging. I could make a PR to help with this, if you want.

[anki-code]

Hi @idank! Thank you for the bash parser! It will help to us in xonsh project. Please don't kill your project.

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