Thomas Berdy
28 years old developer playing around with Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and many others things
Vendoring wheels
Sometimes PyPI may lack some wheels for your environment: the package doesn’t support your Python version yet the package doesn’t support CPU architecture (hello Apple Silicon 👀) the maintainer doesn’t upload wheel to PyPI Having a good toolchain on your laptop is important and if you do, most packages will build just fine except if they need special dependencies. However, some packages may take a lot of time to compile and / or you may work with people that are not able to maintain their toolchain. ...