cmeel-qhull
cmeel distribution for qhull: Convex hull, Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi diagrams, Halfspace intersection
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you need qhull functionality and want to avoid compilation overhead. The broad binary wheel coverage and active maintenance reduce friction. However, install only after clarifying the upstream license terms—the package metadata does not declare them, creating legal ambiguity for proprietary or copyleft-sensitive projects. No known vulnerabilities.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python >= 3.8; binary wheels are platform-specific and may require a compatible C library version.
- Medium install friction due to platform-specific binary wheels; however, maintenance is active with recent repository commits and broad platform coverage across macOS, Linux, and musl variants reduces build-from-source risk.
License · maintenance · safety
(unclear) — License treatment is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is declared in package metadata, creating ambiguity about redistribution and modification rights; verify the upstream qhull license before using in proprietary or copyleft-sensitive contexts.
last release 2023-11-17 (1001 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-01
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 790,298 downloads/mo, #5,052 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install cmeel-qhull
import cmeel_qhull
# Access qhull binaries via cmeel package interface- Exact upstream qhull license and how it applies to this cmeel distribution
- Whether cmeel_qhull exposes a Python API or only command-line binaries
- Runtime dependencies beyond cmeel and their version constraints
What it is and what it does
cmeel-qhull is a Python package that bundles precompiled qhull binaries—a computational geometry library—through the cmeel distribution framework. It provides access to qhull's core algorithms for computing convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi diagrams, and halfspace intersections without requiring compilation on the target system.
The package is maintained as part of the cmake-wheel project and ships as platform-specific binary wheels for macOS and Linux across multiple architectures. It depends on the cmeel runtime package to function. The last release was in November 2023, but the repository remains active with recent commits.
Use it for
- Compute convex hulls of point sets for geometric analysis or mesh generation
- Generate Delaunay triangulations for spatial interpolation or finite-element preprocessing
- Build Voronoi diagrams for proximity analysis or facility location problems
- Perform halfspace intersection queries in computational geometry workflows
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
Yes, if you need qhull functionality and want to avoid compilation overhead.
The broad binary wheel coverage and active maintenance reduce friction. However, install only after clarifying the upstream license terms—the package metadata does not declare them, creating legal ambiguity for proprietary or copyleft-sensitive projects. No known vulnerabilities.
Install
cmeel-qhull on PyPI
Before you install
Medium install friction due to platform-specific binary wheels; however, maintenance is active with recent repository commits and broad platform coverage across macOS, Linux, and musl variants reduces build-from-source risk.
Requires Python >= 3.8; binary wheels are platform-specific and may require a compatible C library version.
License in practice
License treatment is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is declared in package metadata, creating ambiguity about redistribution and modification rights; verify the upstream qhull license before using in proprietary or copyleft-sensitive contexts.
Quickstart
pip install cmeel-qhull
import cmeel_qhull
# Access qhull binaries via cmeel package interfaceVerify before relying
- Exact upstream qhull license and how it applies to this cmeel distribution
- Whether cmeel_qhull exposes a Python API or only command-line binaries
- Runtime dependencies beyond cmeel and their version constraints
Package facts
| License | Not declared unclear |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >= 3.8 |
| Install friction | Medium. Platform-specific wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 1 packagecmeel |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 1,001 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 790,298 / month, #5,052 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
Evidence: cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-0-py3-none-macosx_12_0_arm64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-0-py3-none-macosx_12_0_x86_64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-0-py3-none-manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-0-py3-none-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-0-py3-none-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_i686.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_i686.whl; cmeel_qhull-8.0.2.1-1-py3-none-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl
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