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Provide pip wheels

See original GitHub issue

It seems that over the last year, nearly all packages in the scientific Python ecosystem have started to provide wheels. This is great news, as it make installation on platforms that don’t have the necessary compilers installed very easy, and it’s also extremely fast.

So far, conda has been the only realistic option to install qutip outside of Linux development workstation, and it’s not without caveats (https://github.com/qutip/qutip/issues/674). Conda has also been getting extremely slow (https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7239), which causes problem with continuous integration services or readthedocs (together with the fact that setting up conda on these services isn’t entirely trivial, and, for readthedocs, buggy: https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/3925, https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/3829)

If qutip were to provide wheels, this might alleviate all of these problems. Depending on how complicated the process is compared compared to a conda package, it might then even be ok to drop conda support.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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nathanshammahcommented, Feb 16, 2019

Noted. Will be discussed and will get back to you.

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jakelishmancommented, Mar 29, 2021

Fixed by #1465, to be released in QuTiP 4.6.0.

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