Start Using GitHub Actions

[WillAyd]

Up for discussion, but I released a third party package that leverages pandas and when it came time to build wheels, I found that GitHub Actions actually offers a lot we can use. Here's is a sample configuration that gets triggered on release:

https://github.com/innobi/pantab/blob/master/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yml

This builds "artifacts" in CI that can then be downloaded containing the appropriate wheels:

A few limitations AFAIK:

• There is no win32 platform to build wheels on
• I think ubuntu 16.02 is the oldest available linux platform, which I don't think can build manylinux wheels

So may not have everything we need at the moment, but figure worth starting the discussion as I think this could great simplify our release process

[jreback]

w/o the ability to build manylinux wheels this is a non-starter

[WillAyd]

Yea I think would have to run the manylinux containers within an action for that

[TomAugspurger]

https://github.com/explosion/wheelwright may be worth looking into (azure pipelines, rather than GH actions).

[jreback]

https://github.com/explosion/wheelwright may be worth looking into (azure pipelines, rather than GH actions).

this looks nice and is based on multibuild

[jreback]

we could build the wheels and install / test on them (maybe. not all flavors as that’s expensive but some)

[WillAyd]

So in my other project I started building many linux wheels using the Docker container that pypi publishes. Here is what that GH Action looks like:

https://github.com/innobi/pantab/blob/master/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yml

Along with the script run within docker to actually build and audit the wheels:

https://github.com/innobi/pantab/blob/master/manylinux_build.sh

[WillAyd]

@momisbestfriend pointed out https://github.com/joerick/cibuildwheel and has vouched for it

Haven't gone too deep but may be the easiest option and I don't think requires a separate repo