Also, the wheel builds for Windows could be automated through AppVeyor CI. There is an AppVeyor template for Python projects as well.

I agree that would be nice. None of the core developers of Dulwich are on Windows though; it'd be great if somebody volunteered to take this on.

I will work on this soon.

Any news on this?

Actually started on this today. Will probably have a patch ready tomorrow.

Having wheels autogenerated would be much appreciated.
It is possible to automate Appveyor to use twine to push wheels into PyPi, with an appveyor.yml like this:

environment:
  PYPI_USER: "FOO"
  PYPI_PSWD:
    # See https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration/#secure-variables
    secure: <paste-your-encrypted-value>

#... regular build here

on_success:
  - ps: >-
      $cmtid = git rev-parse HEAD
      if (git describe --exact-match $cmtid) {
        twine upload -u PYPI_USER -p PYPI_PSWD dist/*
      }

Of course the situation becomes a bit more complex if gpg-signing is needed.
I could provide a PR but the user/password have to be set by the owner of the PyPi account.

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 04:18:11AM -0700, Kostis Anagnostopoulos wrote:

Having wheels autogenerated would be much appreciated.
It is possible to automate Appveyor to use twine to push wheels into PyPi, with an appveyor.yml like this:

environment:
  PYPI_USER: "FOO"
  PYPI_PSWD:
    # See https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration/#secure-variables
    secure: <paste-your-encrypted-value>

#... regular build here

on_success:
  - ps: >-
      $cmtid = git rev-parse HEAD
      if (git describe --exact-match $cmtid) {
        twine upload -u PYPI_USER -p PYPI_PSWD dist/*
      }

Of course the situation becomes a bit more complex if gpg-signing is needed.
I could provide a PR but the user/password have to be set by the owner of the PyPi account.
One of the problems is that I don't have access to any Windows machines to make
changes on. Ideally, Dulwich needs a Windows maintainer who takes care of the
Appveyor side of things and keeps things running on Windows. Without that,
Windows support is just going to bitrot again.

I'm also interested in having binary wheels but not only for Windows, for Mac OS X and Linux too.

For Linux, it's quite easy to do thanks to Docker and Mac OS X is not hard, we just need a Mac OS X machine.

I have access to a Mac OS X machine that you could use to generate Mac OS X wheels. I should also be able to find a Windows machine if needed.

Should I send a patch for easily generate Linux wheels through a make command?

@Lothiraldan that'd be great, thanks!

Help on this would still be great.

The appveyor build is now producing wheels, we're just not uploading them yet.

It'd be great if somebody could fix up the bit of code in appveyor.yml that uploads wheels for tags only

This is now mostly in place, and we'll automatically get wheels with the next release of Dulwich.

The only remaining issue is that for some reason urllib3 fails to install with Python 3.4 on Windows:

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jelmer/dulwich/build/job/fim3ld7m0bbxcwuo

0.19.12 now has wheels shipped with it. See https://pypi.org/project/dulwich/#files