continuous release: fix for stable download link

Author: Titus-von-Koeller

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -176,24 +176,25 @@ jobs:
       - name: Move and rename wheel files with pattern replacement
         run: |
           mkdir -p wheels/
+
+          # The whole point of the continuous release is to have a stable download link and the only way to have a PEP 440–compliant wheel name
+          # is to use a stable placeholder version. Otherwise, pip won't let you install the wheel. The cool thing is that we can now install the 
+          # wheel directly from the GH pre-release which gets updated continuously, e.g. 
+          # `pip install https://github.com/bitsandbytes-foundation/bitsandbytes/releases/download/continuous-release_main/bitsandbytes-1.33.7.preview-py3-none-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.whl`
+          STABLE_PLACEHOLDER_VERSION="1.33.7.preview"
+
           # exclude macos wheels for now
           find tmp/ -type f -name '*.whl' ! -name '*macos*' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' wheel; do
             wheel_filename=$(basename "$wheel")
-            if [[ $wheel_filename == *linux*x86_64* ]]; then
-              mv "$wheel" wheels/bnb-linux-x86_64.whl
-            elif [[ $wheel_filename == *linux*aarch64* ]]; then
-              mv "$wheel" wheels/bnb-linux-aarch64.whl
-            elif [[ $wheel_filename == *macosx*x86_64* ]]; then
-              mv "$wheel" wheels/bnb-macos-x86_64.whl
-            elif [[ $wheel_filename == *macosx*arm64* ]]; then
-              mv "$wheel" wheels/bnb-macos-arm64.whl
-            elif [[ $wheel_filename == *win*amd64* ]]; then
-              mv "$wheel" wheels/bnb-windows-x86_64.whl
-            else
-              echo "Unknown wheel format: $wheel_filename"
-              exit 1
-            fi
+
+            # Strip off the original version
+            rest=${wheel_filename#bitsandbytes-*-}
+            new_name="bitsandbytes-${STABLE_PLACEHOLDER_VERSION}-${rest}"
+
+            echo "Renaming $wheel_filename → $new_name"
+            mv "$wheel" "wheels/${new_name}"
           done
+
       - name: Inspect wheels directory after renaming files
         run: ls -alFR wheels/
       - name: Create release and upload artifacts