Manylinux wheels

[sgillies]

Following Matthew Brett's (Numpy, SciPy, &c) lead.

[perrygeo]

Link to some of the build scripts: https://github.com/matthew-brett/manylinux-builds

Particularly interested in the use of auditwheel : https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel#examples

[sgillies]

Moving this one to the 1.0 milestone because 1) a Shapely contributor did a lot of the hard work for us, 2) our upcoming pre-releases are a low risk and infrequent opportunity to test new distributions.

Getting Travis to build the manylinux wheels is a different issue. It'll require changing the Travis infra back to sudo-required.

[sgillies]

Getting close. The last thing to do accomplish before I can upload these to PyPI is get the GDAL and PROJ data files copied into the wheels and rig up the environment variables as I've done for the mac wheels.

[sgillies]

Wheels are trickling up to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rasterio/1.0a1 now!

[sgillies]

I'm going to back burner Linux wheels for now after hitting what looks like a variant on this bug at https://travis-ci.org/mapbox/rio-mbtiles/jobs/162215179#L324. The two Python 2.7 wheels I made using the manylinux Docker image and uploaded to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rasterio/1.0a1, both m and mu, are compiled for UCS-2. The Python 3 wheels are fine.

Previously, I'd blamed the problem on Travis's python 2.7, but that's not the case. As you can see at https://travis-ci.org/mapbox/rio-mbtiles/jobs/162801066#L276, Travis's python 2.7 is a UCS-4 build.

/cc @perrygeo