Python packaging
So... I'm thinking that it'd be good for pip to stop installing from source distributions by default. It's a large and disruptive change though, and I'm trying to figure out what that disruption will look like.
Thoughts?
Also, that's a fun content warning and boosts would be appreciated coz I don't have followers. :)
Python packaging
@pradyunsg I'm pretty sure this would be *massively* disruptive to anyone using pypy.
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@pganssle due to lack of PyPy compatible non-pure-Python wheels?
Python packaging
@pradyunsg Yeah, when I deploy PyPy a bunch of stuff builds from source, including SqlAlchemy. `backports.zoneinfo` also has no PyPy wheels because it is not possible to specify that a wheel is a generic PyPy wheel (see: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/311 )
I suspect there's low coverage for PyPy because of some combination of PyPy being a different beast, people not wanting a combinatorial explosion on their CI builds and people just not bothering.
Python packaging
@pganssle @pradyunsg while i generally like the idea of wheel-only, how'd you handle platforms such as arm that similarly to pypy often don't have wheels on pypi?