piwheels blog

6 March 2020

How you can help

piwheels is an automated system which attempts to build every version of every package on PyPI on all supported Raspbian versions (Jessie, Stretch and Buster). There’s a whole codebase and database to manage this process and it works really well. Maintaining this is a reasonable job in itself, but another part of the process is […]

Tags: github, help
18 July 2019

Raspbian Buster builds complete

An update on our last post, we have now completed a run of builds for Python 3.7 wheels for Raspbian Buster. Now, when you pip install something on Raspbian Buster, you’ll generally get a wheel for it, to the same extent you do for Jessie and Stretch. We now host 40k Python 3.4 wheels (Jessie), […]