Provide prebuilt wheels on pypi

[justinchuby]

Is it possible to provide prebuilt wheels on pypi?

[mstruebing]

I'm not sure what this means, but if it's needed to be done in code feel free to send a PR.

@mmicu highlighting you for obvious reasons :)

[echoix]

GoReleaser can create wheels and sdist, I never tried it: https://goreleaser.com/customization/builds/uv/

Before finding this, I was reading out how this part of the project uvbox could be useful: https://github.com/AmadeusITGroup/uvbox/tree/main/pypi/uvbox

[justinchuby]

Originally I thought there were some compilation going on when installing the package, but I realized it is simply downloading an executable from a known url. A prebuilt wheel at best would package that executable binary and distribute it on pypi, so everything is downloaded from a trusted source.

[echoix]

I think packaging it in a wheel would be the expected behavior, a bit like what is made for ruff and other binaries distributed through pypi

[mmicu]

I don’t have time to work on this at the moment. As Max said, PRs are more than welcome.