pyat: Pypi upload about at HOT 7 CLOSED

The ideal situation would be that you could pip install pyat from any machine. There are a number of complications with this:

• the names pyat, atpy and python-at are all taken in pypi. at-python is available
• you can install numpy from wheels, but scipy is not available as a wheel for Windows. The only need for scipy is to load a lattice from a Matlab file, but this is the primary way we load lattices at present
• building wheels for multiple Linux systems is also a bit tricky. This project uses Docker to enable building the necessary wheels. Numpy uses this approach
  • you can fairly easily build from source on Linux and Mac, but it's not clear to me what the user would need installed to allow this

Building all the wheels to make a release is sounding like a bit of a job.

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I guess what we should do is upload wheels for Windows and rely on compiling on installation for Linux and Mac. That still leaves the problem of Scipy on Windows, but I don't see a simple way out of that one.

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We could use cibuildwheel to build the wheels on Appveyor and Travis CI, then publish them to Github Releases. We could then manually upload them to PyPI.

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Windows users may be able to install numpy and scipy via the packages here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

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Good news.
SciPy 1.0 has got wheels for Windows, too, see https://pypi.org/project/scipy/#files
Though I can't test them the problem with Windows might be solved if one picks SciPy 1.0 which should be ok, since it's only used for io.loadmat.

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Good news, thanks for the tip.

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We now have packages on PyPI under the name accelerator-toolbox: https://pypi.org/project/accelerator-toolbox/

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