[Python] uwsgi fails installing on macOS arm64 benchmarking machine

[pitrou]

Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.

See https://buildkite.com/apache-arrow/arrow-bci-benchmark-on-test-mac-arm/builds/5994#01921fbc-0a5c-438c-928a-761d1a14e06d/34-652

We could simply avoid installing uwsgi on macOS. It's probably enough to exercise the uwsgi-specific test on Linux.

Component(s)

Benchmarking, Python

[pitrou]

@jorisvandenbossche What do you think?

[pitrou]

We could try to set the UWSGI_PYTHON_NOLIB environment variable instead:
https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/blob/b738f550fd74ebf77cc966708d26e4f64ce2a7a3/plugins/python/uwsgiplugin.py#L45

@austin3dickey @boshek

[pitrou]

Issue resolved by pull request 44221
#44221

[jorisvandenbossche]

I think the current solution to only test it on linux is also perfectly fine, but just wondering about what was going on: the uwsgi package has no wheels (and so the source install was failing), but from https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/deploying/uwsgi/, it points to https://pypi.org/project/pyuwsgi/, which does have wheels.

I am not very familiar with those tools and packages, but if that package provides the same underlying tool, switching to that might actually be useful for linux as well to avoid compiling it from source on CI.

[pitrou]

Uh, I had no idea pyuwsgi even existed. Well, we could try switching to it...