openslide-python Support openslide-bin

Prefer loading OpenSlide from the openslide-bin package if available.

Mar 28 '24 17:03 bgilbert

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Mar 28 '24 17:03 openslide-bot

May I ask when this PR will be merged and the potential release date of openslide-python 1.4.0?

May 27 '24 15:05 Mr-Milk

Hopefully within the next couple months. The missing pieces for this PR are docs and error message updates, which don't affect the functionality, so while you're waiting you should be able to use a local OpenSlide Python build with this patch applied.

May 28 '24 09:05 bgilbert

I can help with the docs and the error message part if this can accelerate the release process.

May 28 '24 09:05 Mr-Milk

Thanks for the offer. 1.4.0 isn't only waiting for this PR, though. Type hints and some additional cleanups are also planned, and my attention is currently on some work in the main OpenSlide repo.

If you'd like to contribute the docs and error updates, feel free to submit a new PR to this repo with just those changes. If they look good, I can merge them into this branch or land them separately.

May 28 '24 10:05 bgilbert