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dcc-mcp-server-bin — PyPI distribution of the dcc-mcp-server binary

Status: shipped — the wheel is built by the build-binaries job and published by publish-server-pypi in .github/workflows/release.yml.

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This directory packages the crates/dcc-mcp-server Rust binary as a platform-specific binary-only PyPI wheel, following the same pattern as ruff, uv, cmake, and pyright. The result is a single pip install dcc-mcp-server that drops the gateway / sidecar / translate CLI onto PATH for Python 3.7+ regardless of which DCC the user runs.

Why a separate PyPI package?

dcc-mcp-core is a PyO3 wheel — its _core.so is loaded into the host Python interpreter (mayapy / blender-python / hython). The sidecar binary, by contrast, is meant to run as its own OS process; bundling it into dcc-mcp-core would couple two artefacts with very different release cadences and ABI matrices. Splitting them is the standard pattern.

Package Distributes Audience
dcc-mcp-core (existing) PyO3 wheel (_core.so + Python facade) Skill authors, plugin/addon code running inside a DCC interpreter
dcc-mcp-server (this dir) platform-specific Python 3.7+ binary wheels Operators, sidecar spawners, anyone who wants a standalone gateway
dcc-mcp-<dcc> (each repo) pure-Python plugin/addon glue DCC plugin loaders (userSetup.py, addon register(), …)

Layout

pkg/dcc-mcp-server-bin/
├── pyproject.toml              ← maturin config, bindings = "bin"
├── python/
│   └── dcc_mcp_server/
│       └── __init__.py         ← binary_path() helper for subprocess spawn
└── README.md                   ← this file

The Rust source is not duplicated here — pyproject.toml sets manifest-path = "../../crates/dcc-mcp-server/Cargo.toml" so maturin builds the existing workspace crate.

Local build

# Build a wheel for the current platform / Python
cd pkg/dcc-mcp-server-bin/
vx pip install maturin
vx maturin build --release

# Resulting wheel lands in ../../target/wheels/dcc_mcp_server-*.whl
vx pip install ../../target/wheels/dcc_mcp_server-*.whl
dcc-mcp-server --help

The wheel uses maturin bindings = "bin", so it does not load a Python extension module and has no CPython ABI dependency. Its metadata deliberately declares Requires-Python: >=3.7 so embedded Python 3.7 hosts such as Maya 2022 can install it directly.

Cross-platform CI release

Wheels are built by the build-binaries job in .github/workflows/release.yml (there is no separate server-binary workflow) and published to PyPI by the publish-server-pypi job.

OS Arch Wheel platform tag
manylinux2014 x86_64 manylinux_2_17_x86_64
Windows x86_64 win_amd64
macOS universal2 macosx_10_12_universal2

The wheels are retagged to py3-none-<platform> by scripts/release/server_wheel_tags.py, so a single wheel serves every supported Python version. Linux wheels are deliberately built for manylinux2014 rather than a newer baseline so older DCC-hosted Python environments such as Maya 2022 can install them.

Both jobs are gated on release-please creating a release. The repository is released as a single release-please package, so the server package ships from the same v<version> tags as the core release — there is no separate dcc-mcp-server tag stream.

Usage from a DCC plugin

# In a Maya plugin / Blender addon, after `pip install dcc-mcp-server`:
import os, subprocess
from dcc_mcp_server import binary_path

_proc = subprocess.Popen([
    str(binary_path()),
    "sidecar",
    "--dcc", "maya",
    "--host-rpc", "commandport://127.0.0.1:6000",
    "--watch-pid", str(os.getpid()),
])

That's the entire plugin → sidecar wiring. Per-DCC HostRpcClient implementations land in their respective adapter repos.

Metadata

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