RISE Python Wheels is a public project enabling the RISC-V support for the Python ecosystem. It makes use of the RISE RISC-V Runners project to build wheels on native riscv64 hardware, with the goal of maintaining a riscv64-specific package repository for projects where upstream are not yet ready or able to perform builds themselves.
This work is a continuation of the earlier wheel_builder project, which hosts binary wheels for a variety of Python modules.
For more informatiion about RISE, visit the project website.
Python is commonly used in the fields of scientific computing, data analysis and machine learning. However, the Python packages used in these disciplines aren’t wholly written in Python - they also contain a lot of code written in C/C++ or other languages which needs to be built as part of the module. Such projects typically create binary wheels for each of their releases and upload these wheels to pypi, the Python Package Index. This allows users to easily and quickly install tested, prebuilt versions of their favourite projects using the pip (or uv) tool.
Until recently, Python packaging infrastructure like auditwheel, cibuildwheel, and manylinux did not support riscv64, and no native runners for GitHub Actions were available. This made supporting the architecture difficult for open-source projects without complicated build processes and emulated systems. However, the aforementioned infrastructure now supports riscv64, and with the RISE RISC-V Runners project, maintainers have the option of building binary wheels on native riscv64 platforms. The RISE Python Wheels project's goal is to accelerate this adoption and ensure that the riscv64 architecture is fully-supported for data science and machine learning applications.
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