Prophet: Upload wheel to PyPI

[xliiv]

Could you upload wheel format to PyPI?

Helpful resource:

• https://pythonwheels.com/
• https://github.com/pypa/twine#using-twine

[bletham]

Is there a particular reason for preferring a wheel? Since you anyway have to have all of the build tools just to run pystan, we haven't seen a huge advantage to having a wheel. And conda-forge has binaries for fbprophet which cover anyone using Anaconda.

[xliiv]

Thank you for this explanation.
What if pystan also provided wheel?

[bletham]

pystan does provide wheels, but you still have to have build tools because Stan models are translated to C++ and compiled on-the-fly.

[xliiv]

So there must be a benefit from wheels ;) since pystan requires whole build kit and still provides wheels format.. . ;)
Thanks for explanation again :)

[bletham]

Yeah, we'll have to consider this more.

[chaitan94]

Is this being considered anytime soon?

fbprophet takes quite some time to build, in fact, in one of our application, it almost triples our build times. I am guessing by having a wheel in PyPI, will help improve this by a huge factor. If so, maybe I can try to figure out a way on how to this and make a contribution if that is okay with the maintainers. Any pointers to the same will be appreciated.

[CaselIT]

It would be really helpful for windows users, since installing all the required python build tool-chain is tedious and prone to errors.

In the meantime here's a link to the conda compiled version https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/fbprophet