Python3.12 arm64 wheels / force compiled version

[da-woods]

Hi,

Coverage is used in the Cython test-suite. We need to use the compiled C-extension version because we're mainly testing our own plugin.

In the recent update to Coverage 7.6.11 you seem to have dropped Linux Arm64 wheels for Python 3.12 (although do have them for other Python versions). This means it's installing the py3-none-any wheel (without the C-extension).

So ideally I'd like either:

• A Linux Arm64 Py3.12 wheel
• A way of forcing pip to build the extension (instead of using the py3-none-any wheel). It's possible that this exists and I don't know about it. In which case some documentation on your "Installation" page would help.

Thanks

[blthayer]

Please note that compiled aarch64 wheels are also missing for Python 3.11 for coverage version 7.6.11

https://pypi.org/project/coverage/7.6.11/#files

[nedbat]

Thanks. Looks like I've encountered pypa/cibuildwheel#2257 and didn't notice the failures. I'll have to puzzle through how to fix it.

[scoder]

Switching to the recent ubuntu-24.0-arm image (and removing the QEMU action) worked surprisingly smoothly for me. And it builds so much faster. Definitely worth going for.

cython/cython@d3ec652

[nedbat]

Fixed in commit ce4efdc.

This is now released as part of coverage 7.6.12.