Port from setuptools to meson-python #345
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Is there an upstream bug for meson-python not supporting arm64 ? |
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It's not about arm64, it's about cross compiling. And from what I remember the Python build backend APIs don't provide interfaces for cross compiling, so there is no standard way to implement it in a build backend, and in setuptools it works because of hacks. mesonbuild/meson-python#321 seems relevant. |
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I wouldn't mind dropping arm64 again... but I also don't mind just keeping this open until something changes. |
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Do you have any download stats for the win/arm64 wheel? |
I don't know how I would get that. |
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There are rumors that we'll get arm64 windows CI this year, so I think it's fine to continue with this, since there is a fix in sight. |
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Got some numbers now using pypinfo: In the last 90 days, there were 49047 Windows wheel downloads, 24 (0.05%) of those for arm64, 598 (1.22%) of those for win32, 48449 (98.83%) for win_amd64. |
arm64 is dropped since cross compiling isn't supported except with setuptools. We'll have to wait for native GHA runners
This is currently blocked on meson-python not supporting cross compiling for arm64 on Windows.
Cross compiling is currently a hack between setuptools and cibuildwheel and not part of any spec, so it's not clear where this should be fixed.
We could drop arm64 wheels to unblock this.