Publish prebuilt wheels on PyPI

[devmcp]

Description

It seems that only the source is published on PyPI and no prebuilt wheels, meaning that adding the package to a virtualenv is very slow (on Windows it is at least - it takes several minutes).

Are there plans to publish pre-built wheels?

Thanks!

[mcanouil]

You could have added a comment on your other discussion:

• Installing quarto-cli package is incredibly slow #11930

FYI, the code used to publish Quarto CLI to PyPI is at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli-pypi

And you can see the following note in the README:

Note The current quarto-cli package downloads required Quarto binary files from GitHub during installation. We are investigating providing pre-built wheel files to make installation more robust.

Which is also displayed on PyPI page as well: https://pypi.org/project/quarto-cli/

[cderv]

To add to what has already been said, the initial problem was a size issue. The pre built wheel was too heavy and above the limit for what we could have publish to pipy. I recall also some difficulties to build on all OS.

Now we can see if things have evolved, in the way it can be built, and if pypi constraints are still the same.

• Investigate providing prebuilt wheels quarto-cli-pypi#4

[devmcp]

Thanks both for flagging these up. I had missed the message on the PyPI page. Great to hear that is is being looked into 👍