Automated workflow to release pre-compiled binary wheels?

[nightlark]

I noticed that currently the ssdeep package only provides a source package on PyPI, which makes it harder to depend on the ssdeep package (can't just list ssdeep in pyproject dependencies, need to have user manually install libfuzzy or set an environment variable to build from source -- which is also requires having a suitable compiler installed).

Would there be interest in a PR that uses cibuildwheel to automate building ssdeep binary wheels across a variety of architectures? This would be similar to the work done for https://github.com/ssciwr/clang-format-wheel, https://github.com/nightlark/swig-pypi/, and https://github.com/scikit-build/cmake-python-distributions/, which provide pre-compiled binary wheels for all major platforms on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/swig/, https://pypi.org/project/cmake/, https://pypi.org/project/clang-format).

@phibos I also noticed it has been a while since any code updates were made (though ssdeep itself also appears to be mostly frozen), and the last comment by a python-ssdeep maintainer on a GitHub issue appears to be around 2022 -- if you need help with maintenance, I'm open to helping with some of the open GitHub issues and getting an update released on PyPI.

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[barabasicsongor]

This would actually be great, as I'm also currently having issues adding ssdeep as a requirement to a project via Poetry.

[kandji-alex]

Yeah this would be awesome!

[nightlark]

@phibos It's been a year (+1/2), wanted to get your thoughts on this. Would also be great to just confirm you're around and still able to maintain the PyPI package in case the upstream ssdeep project comes out with a new release (surprisingly recent commit 3 months ago after multiple years with nothing).