Streamlining installation on Linux/MacOS

[ciroraggio]

Operating system

Linux/MacOS

Platform

64-bit

OpenSlide Python version

1.3.1

OpenSlide version

N.A.

Slide format

N.A.

Issue details

Thanks for your work!
I had a problem trying to install: monai[all] on my system (Ubuntu 22.04) without a compiler.

After checking on PyPI ¹ we realised that no wheels are provided for Linux and MacOS, so there is no way to install it.
It has also been discussed here ² previously.
It would be ideal to also provide wheels for Linux and MacOS so that even those without developer experience can easily install it.

To help @jcfr mentioned that updating openslide-python build system based on template available here would help with that: https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/guides/packaging-compiled/

Footnotes

1. https://pypi.org/project/openslide-python/#files ↩

2. https://discourse.slicer.org/t/installing-openslide-python/24187 ↩

[bgilbert]

Support for building Linux and macOS wheels was added in #237, and OpenSlide Python 1.4.0 will include wheels for all three platforms. Thanks for the report!