Automate builds and tests

[mostafa]

Hey @malemburg,

I saw in the release notes that the builds (and tests) are not automated. I'd be happy to help automate them with GitHub CI.

Please note that we currently don't have builds automated, so we're just releasing a set of distribution archives for the x86_64 platform built on OpenSUSE Leap 15.5. Going forward, we hope to have more Unix platforms covered. If things don't work (e.g. missing lib*.so files), please install from source.

[malemburg]

That would be great.

I did some research and we may be able to reuse tooling or get inspiration from these projects:

• https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone
• https://github.com/pypa/manylinux

I think using manylinux containers would get us the best compatibility (even though not necessarily the best performance) for Linux platforms.

Other platforms which we should eventually cover:

• Alpine (musl on ARM64 and AMD64)
• macOS (Intel + ARM64)
• FreeBSD (AMD64)

BTW: If you are attending EuroPython next week, we could meet up and discuss.

[mostafa]

Sounds good! Then I'll work on this.

Also, I wish I were! Maybe next time, or we can meet online anytime.

[mostafa]

@malemburg It feels like I cannot find time to do this and I don't want to block it if you or someone else is going to work on it.

[malemburg]

On 05.08.2024 13:07, Mostafa Moradian wrote: @malemburg <https://github.com/malemburg> It feels like I cannot find time to do this and I don't want to block it if you or someone else is going to work on it.

Thanks, Mostafa. I'll probably start looking into this over the next two weeks.

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