Can a wheel be built and uploaded to pypi along with a tarball

[sriram-mv]

Under https://pypi.org/project/future/#files. I see that there is a tar gz file.

Having a wheel built and uploaded would also help.

Relative imports in setup.py would make execution of it complain with modules src.future not being found.

/some/different/path/python setup.py install

Error:

import src.future
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'src'

I found this issue on windows, and got around it by manually building a wheel myself, and installing the wheel through pip.

[chadrik]

+1
It's crazy that a project whose purpose is to aid users in modernizing their python code is stuck in the stone age! :)

[demianzhang]

rm the ._pth file in python installed file

[gaborbernat]

Plus one on this!

[WSLUser]

It think this should be high priority to get updates including --pre (installs from master branch) easily with pip.

[WSLUser]

@thesriram Could you please provide the wheel you created here as well as submitting PR to add the wheel to the repo?

[WSLUser]

Also related: Need an egg file.

[WSLUser]

Looks like a wheel will be auto-created if you're running Miniconda (or it's bloated brother) when installing with pip (or conda). But it should already exist out of box along with the egg.

[groodt]

I've created this PR, which if merged, will publish a wheel (non-universal) when a release is cut: #536

Future enhancements could be to setup Travis or some other CI system to publish wheels for different Python versions. Or some Docker containers to publish Python2 and Python3 versions. It seems that the wheel is not a "universal" wheel, because it is doing some 2to3 style stuff and the "universal" wheel configuration has been removed:
#400

[johnthagen]

future is currently the number one most downloaded package on PyPI missing a wheel: https://pythonwheels.com/

[groodt]

@johnthagen Yes. There is also an open PR with a simple change that would allow wheels to be published. #536

The project is obviously not very active anymore, but there were commits in Feb 2020.

@jmadler Is there any interest in publishing a Wheel?

[odidev]

As per above discussion, we know that python-future doesn't have wheel for aarch64/x86 on PyPI repository. So, while installing python-future via pip on aarch64/x86 machine, pip builds the source code resulting in it takes more time to install python-future. Making wheel available for aarch64/x86 will benefit aarch64/x86 users by minimizing python-future installation time. We can release the wheel using CI/CD tools such as Travis-ci, circle-ci, azure-pipeline etc...

@sfdye @jmadler, please let me know if I can help you building wheel/uploading to PyPI repository. I am curious to make python-future wheel available for aarch64. It will be a great opportunity for me to work with you.

[MRsoymilk]

I got the same problem on my Windows machine: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'src'

I download the tarball and add:

sys.path.append('C:\\Users\\milk\\Desktop\\future-0.18.2')

in setup.py, just add the path to the future file, then it works! This really bother me for a long time.