Upload wheels to PyPI

Wheels (.whl) for this package are currently missing from PyPI. Could wheels be uploaded for the current and future releases?

Read more about the advantages of wheels to understand why generating wheel distributions are important.

To create a wheel along with source distribution:

(venv) $ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
(venv) $ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

# See dist/*.whl

To upload wheels:

(venv) $ pip install twine
(venv) $ twine upload dist/*

[bjmc]

I’d like to chip and second this request, if it’s possible. We’re running into a problem deploying a Chalice application that depends on pyrsistent from a MacOS workstation. The issue is the same one described here and the suggestion is that if PyPI included prebuilt manylinux1 wheels, then we wouldn’t need to compile the dependency as part of the deploy process.

Thanks for all your work on this project!

[kgaughan]

@tobgu While looking up another issue, I stumbled across this, which may be useful to you: https://github.com/joerick/cibuildwheel

It looks solid, the documentation is good, and it’s used by some prominent projects that should work as good examples to draw from.