Provide manylinux wheels for lxml

[Joar Wandborg]

lxml is usually a pain for Linux/Docker users to install - Historically Linux wheels PyPI has been a No Go, and pip's wheel cache doesn't help on Docker, where it's usually disabled.

Since a while back Python Packaging Authority provides a "manylinux"[0] utility, it would be awesome if lxml could be distributed as a manylinux wheel in addition to the windows wheels.

[0]: https://github.com/pypa/manylinux

[Joar Wandborg (joar-s)]

Here's a WIP for a manylinux static build: https://github.com/joar/lxml-manylinux

[Joar Wandborg (joar-s)]

Submitted PR: https://github.com/lxml/lxml/pull/202. I abandoned the travis-ci part of https://github.com/joar/lxml-manylinux, but you can now easily build manylinux wheels, and lxml's main travis-ci could probably be configured to build the wheels and upload them as well.

[scoder (scoder)]

Wheels uploaded for lxml 3.6.1. Please give them a try.

[Joar Wandborg (joar-s)]

No wheels available for lxml 3.6.1, wheels for lxml 3.6.2 seems to work fine on Python 2.7 and Python 3.5.

Thank you!

[Chris Jerdonek (chris-jerdonek)]

Thanks! But yes, did you mean to say 3.6.2?

https://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/

[scoder (scoder)]

I first uploaded them for 3.6.1, then noticed that they weren't stripped and rebuilt them (almost -50% in size), tried to upload the new packages and PyPI rejected them because the filenames were already used before. :-/ A new release version was the only option.

[scoder (scoder)]

See ticket #1614603.

[scoder (scoder)]

Erm, issue 1614603.

[scoder (scoder)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1614603

[scoder (scoder)]

New wheels uploaded for lxml 3.6.3. Let's see if those work better.