Possible to release wheel for python 3.13/macos 13/arm?

[jameswilburlewis]

NetCDF4 version 1.7.2 does not include a python 3.13 wheel for Mac OS 13/ARM. Would it be possible to add this to the release, to make it easily pip-installable for this platform?

[jswhit]

there is one for macos 14 at https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/58/3e/5736880a607edabca4c4fc49f1ccf9a2bb2485f84478e4cd19ba11c3b803/netCDF4-1.7.2-cp313-cp313-macosx_14_0_arm64.whl

Does this one not work for you?

[jswhit]

Note that we cannot provide macosx 13 arm wheels since github actions only has macox 14 arm platform support (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners)

[jameswilburlewis]

Oh, I see! Wow, macosx 14 has only been out a little over a year, so I'm surprised github dropped support already for 13. Is there a reason that wheel can't be uploaded to pypi? Anyway, thanks for pointing me toward pythonhosted.org -- I can at least refer to that in our package's installation guide. (Installing from conda-forge also worked, but some users are reluctant to mix pip and conda....)

[dopplershift]

I was looking and it seems like numpy has arm64 wheels targetting macos >= 11. I was wondering how, and it looks like they build those on Cirrus: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/tools/ci/cirrus_wheels.yml. Not sure who has the appetite to reproduce, let alone maintain, that, but there is a possibility for a motivated individual.

Is there a reason that wheel can't be uploaded to pypi? Anyway, thanks for pointing me toward pythonhosted.org

I'm confused, pythonhosted.org is just the link on the main PyPI page? I see it there:

Installing from conda-forge also worked, but some users are reluctant to mix pip and conda....

It's a really bad idea to mix packages compiled for PyPI with those compiled with conda-forge. Best to use all or nothing, except in very specific circumstances (like a pure python package using pip).

[jameswilburlewis]

The macosx_13 wheel is on pythonhosted.org, but I'm not seeing it on https://pypi.org/project/netCDF4/#files , and "pip install" on that platform can't find it, so tries to build locally from source.

[dopplershift]

@jameswilburlewis The link posted by @jswhit above doesn't say macosx_13? it says macosx_14.