Support of Linux ARM64 architectures

[Kayne88]

Feature Request

I am running a AWS EC2 VM with Ubuntu and ARM64 architecture. Is it possible to support this architecture as well?

Cheers

[cjdsellers]

Hi @Kayne88

The docker --platform option may get you by here, e.g.

docker pull ghcr.io/nautechsystems/<image_variant_tag> --platform linux/amd64

You could also build your own docker image to target that platform.

I think what you're really after here though are published binary wheels for Linux ARM64? This is actually something we're planning to introduce once GitHub ARM64 runners come out of the beta testing phase. (possibly in Q3 this year?)

At this point each release will be taking up a large amount of space on PyPI, with wheels weighing in at ~25 -80 MB currently. A related decision might have to be made whether to support 3 Python versions and reduce the release lookback window, or maintain that window and reduce the number of supported versions to 2 Pythons - depends on whether the community values better Python backwards compatibility, or a longer published release window (likely will be put to vote).