Feature request: build pure python wheel for PyPi

[johncalvinyoung]

I'm working with your package (thanks so much!) doing some DXF export from a drawing application running in the browser. I've been able to get the core ezdxf package working with Pyodide (Python running in WASM), but it required building a vanilla python wheel from source, as the PyPi builds don't have a py3-none-any.whl build since 0.14.x. Could you look into building that for the package repository? It'd be great to get a further ported version with the extensions built for the Pyodide (WASM/Emscripten) environment, but even just the pure core package would be really helpful.

Thanks so much!

[mozman]

Why is the source package not good enough?

Exist a dedicated setup.py command like bdist_wheel to build such a package? The only way I found to build such a packages is using pypy which doesn't use the c-extensions.

If you want special packages, look at the workflow scripts and create a similar one that is simple enough that I understand it, because I have to maintain it. All wheels are build automatically by a github-action using the cibuildwheel server provided by the Python Packaging Authority.

[johncalvinyoung]

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for not getting back to you quicker--been very busy implementing features on top of ezdxf for my application!

Sadly, micropip, which is the package manager for the Pyodide ecosystem, is really really picky about loading wheels. I attempted to pass it the link to the 1.0.0.zip file on PyPi and it barfed.

Guess I'll look into contributing a build script.

[mozman]

I added a pure Python wheel deployer by using pypy to run the setup.py script, which does not build the C-extensions:

use python3 -m pip install ezdxf==1.0.1b0

[johncalvinyoung]

Thank you so much!