[Ubuntu] MapServer Python MapScript and Wheels/Ubuntu Packages

[Seth G]

Thanks for the reply. 
By "use of wheels" I meant is it possible they can be used as the source of all files required for the installation e.g. the binaries would go to /lib and the examples and tests to /share. 

I can see how builds for every version of Python3 would be a pain. 
Looking at the shapely package at https://packages.ubuntu.com/en/bionic/python3-shapely - it contains binaries for just Python 3.6. Would limiting the Python version be possible on a repository such as ubuntugis-unstable? 

Apologies if the questions are fairly basic, but Linux distributions are new to me. Would https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide be the best place to start reading? I'll also give manylinux another try. 

Regards,

Seth


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On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 9/20/18 11:35 PM, Seth G wrote:
> > I see there is already a 7.2 python-mapscript package available at https://packages.ubuntu.com/en/cosmic/python-mapscript
> > Can Python packages released on Ubuntu make use of wheels to create the package?
> 
> No, the product of a Debian source package build process are binary
> packages.
> 
> > Would a python3-mapscript package also be possible to create?
> 
> Not easily. The upstream build process only supports building with a
> single Python version. We'll need to rebuild mapserver with every
> supported Python version in Debian like we do for Ruby to add support
> for Python 3, and I'm not very fond of that.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
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