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Publish sdist with releases

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by inspecting the repository's packaging and release configuration to find where binary wheels are built and published. Confirm how an sdist can be added to that process, then verify that a release publishes the source tarball alongside the existing wheels and that it can be used to build the package on unsupported platforms.

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Description

Would a change to also make a sdist tarball get published for releases be accepted?

Currently the abi3 binary wheels are great (much better than a bunch of CPython interpreter version specific wheels), though it doesn't give a way for people to install the wheel that are using PyPy. Alternate pip indexes for specific platforms not supported by PyPI such as piwheels.org and Pyodide also need an sdist in order to build wheels from PyPI.

Having an sdist also means I can install die-python on systems with CPUs that currently don't have binary wheels published, such as ppcle64 and risc-v systems. For releasing other software that depends on die-python this is particularly helpful, since PyPI doesn't allow uploading packages that have dependencies installed via direct git/http URLs.

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