simonw/datasette-app

Possible to create wheels for things like pyjq and sign them for distribution?

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#96 opened on Sep 10, 2021

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From https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app/discussions/67#discussioncomment-1300040 - installing the datasette-jq plugin is difficult because it depends on pyjq which needs to compile an extension.

@psychemedia suggests:

Or at a push maintain your own wheelhouse and add a path to also look to that to install packages?

Would this require signing things for distribution for macOS? The wheel generated by pip install pyjq includes a _pyjq.cpython-39-darwin.so file.

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Investigate how to build pyjq into a wheel and sign it for macOS distribution, possibly using a tool like delocate to bundle dynamic libraries and codesign for signing.
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python
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backendtooling
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Pythonpipwheel creation
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