> to be the same. I suppose I could deliver the static libs themselves, along
> with the headers, etc, but that does get ugly.

Hmm, that seems to me to be something of a non-goal. If you publish
wheels, 99.999% of people should never need to build your software.

I'm 100% in favour of repeatable, automated builds -

 But we
don't really need a standard infrastructure for them, you write a
"setup_build_environment.py" script that ships with your project, run
it once, and then run python setup.py bdist_wheel. If your build
dependencies are simple, "setup_build_environment.py" could be short
(or even non-existent!) or if not it could be many hundreds of lines
of code. But it's specific to your project.