Minimalist wheel building
Project description
Quickly makes Python wheels from a bunch of .py files without needing a setup.py at all.
You probably don’t want to use this. It’s intentionally minimal for my own use-cases, and doesn’t have many features yet (no support for entrypoints, dependencies, extras). If all you’re looking for is a fast build, then consider using flit build --format wheel with a pyproject.toml, this should be nearly as fast.
Usage
For a single file distribution:
python whl.py path/to/myfile.pyFor a package (directory with an __init__.py file in it):
python whl.py path/to/dirwhl.py will look in some sensible places to autodetect the package name/version.
Rationale
If all you want to do is package some .py file(s) into a .whl, that’s essentially just making a zipfile. Executing a setuptools / distutils style installer script or a PEP517 / PEP518 style build system is bloated with features which you don’t need, and it can be done much cheaper/faster:
$ time python whl.py mypkg
./mypkg-0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
python whl.py mypkg 0.06s user 0.02s system 86% cpu 0.091 totalCompared with doing things the correct way:
$ time python -m build --wheel .
* Creating venv isolated environment...
...
<blah blah>
...
Successfully built mypkg-0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
python -m build --wheel . 5.05s user 0.53s system 96% cpu 5.776 total
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