build and publish a wheel

[dimbleby]

I notice that this package publishes only source distributions, so that every user has to build the wheel themselves. Better for package owners to build and publish wheels once and for all.

I did not find a workflow in this repository for publishing or I would have submitted a pull request. If you are doing this manually a typical workflow would be something like

python -m pip install build twine
python -m build
twine upload dist/*

[jacobgil]

Hi, can you please clarify what this means.
I am already using twine to build the wheel and upload to pypi.
Do you mean something else ?

[dimbleby]

You are not publishing a wheel, you are publishing only a source distribution - see https://pypi.org/project/grad-cam/#files.

The way installation of python packages works is always from wheel: so currently every user install is first building a wheel from this source distribution and then installing that wheel.

Better for package maintainers to build and publish the wheel, then users install it directly.