Hi Guido,
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:40 AM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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> Maybe we need to help there. For example IIRC conda-forge will build conda packages -- maybe we should offer a service like that for wheels?
Tooling to automate the creation of wheel binary packages targeting
the stable ABI would help. C extensions likely need changing a few
function calls which are not supported by the limited C API. Someone
has to do this work.
The idea of having a service to build wheels for folks is an old one that I think a ton of people would benefit from.
Currently, people typically get pointed to
https://pypi.org/project/cibuildwheel/ as the per-project solution. But designing a safe way to build wheels from any sdist on PyPI, keeping such a service up, having the free processing to do it, etc. is unfortunately a big enough project that no one has stepped forward to try and tackle it.