wheels.scipy.org server not found

[robbmcleod]

Looking at my attempt at a NumExpr build, and other packages, it seems the CDN has gone missing. Neither

http://wheels.scipy.org

http://a365fff413fe338398b6-1c8a9b3114517dc5fe17b7c3f8c63a43.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com/

show any response.

[matthew-brett]

Ah - no - sorry - we haven't got round to documenting this yet, but
the Rackspace account is now closed (they stopped subsidizing it).

Most of us have now moved to hosting wheels on Anaconda.org space.

A useful Numpy thread is here:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2020-August/080915.html

Summarizing: Numpy has some example machinery for uploading to the
Anaconda.org space:

https://github.com/MacPython/numpy-wheels/blob/master/azure/posix.yml#L87

@mattip - sorry - I bet I'm just being lazy here - but can you comment on permissions for the Anaconda upload?

[hugovk]

For another example, we switched Pillow from wheels.scipy.org to GitHub Releases:

• Upload wheels to GitHub Releases python-pillow/pillow-wheels#156

By the way, thanks for offering and adminning wheels.scipy.org all these years, it was a great help!

[peterjc]

With assistance from @mattip I have been working on moving from Rackspace to Anaconda for staging wheels for Biopython. The key points are:

1. Via the https://anaconda.org/multibuild-wheels-staging/ and/or https://anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly settings, create anaconda token(s) with the right permissions
2. Set the token(s) as secure environment variable(s) in TravisCI
3. For AppVeyor encrypt the token(s) via https://ci.appveyor.com/tools/encrypt and record the new string(s) via secure: ... in your appveyor.yml file
4. Replace wheelhouse_uploader with the anaconda upload command in .travis.yml and appveyor.yml

The details will vary depending on if you are only staging releases, or also doing weekly builds (and if you wish to rename those wheels or not).

My notes are on biopython/biopython-wheels#6 and the linked PR. The actual changes in .travis.yml and appveyor.yml are fairly small but the existing examples are all a little different to each other. I think https://github.com/MacPython/scipy-wheels is probably the simplest to work from right now.

[mattip]

Closing. The move away from that fileserver is behind us now.