reduce pypi package file size

[wtayyeb]

Hi, thank you for your great django-table2 package. it helps us very much.

I recently re-install my environment and noticed django-tables2 pypi package size is even bigger than django itself!

digging more about that, I found that you only distribute source code to pypi. But if you bdist_wheel it, it will reduce to ~90Kb.

However if you don't like wheels (why?) you could exclude /docs/_build/ directory form source distributed version of your package, or at least remove those huge web fonts from there. I don't think anyone install your package via pip to read documents, when you offer docs in readthedocs.

thanks.

[jieter]

Yes, I noticed the size too, but never took the time to look into it. Excluding docs from the package sounds good to me, PR welcome!

[wtayyeb]

why not publish it as wheel?

There is nothing to change in code repository to publish this package as wheel

It's too easy as executing following command:

python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal upload

or more control on upload via twine:

pip install twine

python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/django_tables2-xxx.whl

NOTE:

1. --universal is to generate py2/py3 compatible wheels
2. If error occur that say wheel is not exist or bdist_wheel is unknown, maybe you need to
   python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel

[wtayyeb]

also you could remove recursive-include docs * from MANIFEST.in file. and source publish it like before.

https://github.com/jieter/django-tables2/blob/master/MANIFEST.in#L4

[jieter]

Because I do not fully understand the difference between a source package and a wheel, I do not want to rush changing it.
Like I said, you are welcome to open a PR removing the line from Manifest.in.

[wtayyeb]

ok I am doing it right now. and will submit a pull request.

[wtayyeb]

#630

[wtayyeb]

@jieter, my PR(#630) is now ready. I have to solve some other stuff to make all travis-ci tests pass. but they dont belong to package size 😅