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Creating pure Python wheels when using build scripts #3594
Description
- I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
- I have searched the documentation and believe that my question is not covered.
Feature Request
Is there any way to create pure Python wheels (or universal wheels) when using build scripts?
I know that build scripts are still undocumented (#2740), but if I use pyproject.toml like
[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
[tool.poetry.build]
generate-setup-file = false
script = "build.py"then poetry build creates a platform wheel like hello-0.1.0-cp39-cp39-manylinux2014_x86_64.whl, which makes sense when building C-extensions.
But, when one wants to use build.py to generate some platform-independent resource files from the source (corresponding to setup.py build_py), platform wheels are not needed and pure Python wheels like hello-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl may suffice.
It would be great if one could select pure Python wheels (and possibly also universal wheels) by configuring in pyproject.toml, for example,
[tool.poetry.build]
pure-python-wheel = trueReacted by Ralf Grubenmann, Will Da Silva and Alex Ball
Activity
sinoroc commentedon Jan 21, 2021
I think there are already tickets on the topic of the platform tags of the wheel. Maybe you can find some valuable info in those.
tueda commentedon Jan 21, 2021
Thank you for the comment. Indeed, it seems that I should have searched "platform tags" more thoroughly in the Issues. I found
The former already has a comment about the fact that
poetryassumes platform wheels whenbuild.pyis used, pure Python wheels otherwise. I would close this as a duplicate.gitonthescene commentedon Jun 24, 2021
FWIW, I think this is still a good idea as a stop gap until there is more full featured support build scripts. Having such an option would make it easier to build with the build script when using
--format sdistand not when using--format wheeland avoid building wheels with arbitrary tags, but still have sayCythonsupport when building an sdist.Currently, the only way to do this is to manually exit the
pyproject.tomlfile, remove thebuildline and rebuild.github-actions commentedon Mar 2, 2024
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