Publish source distributions to PyPI

Open shwina opened this issue 4 months ago • 3 comments

Should we publish sdists to enable installation on unsupported platforms?

Nov 12 '25 21:11 shwina

tl;dr: No 😂

Nov 13 '25 17:11 leofang

@leofang I believe PyTorch would prefer a source distribution

Nov 13 '25 17:11 NaderAlAwar

PyTorch depends on a ton of Python wheels. They also don't require a compiler to present at install time, and don't ship sdist themselves (see this pypackaging page for reasons behind my tl;dr). How exactly would they use sdist?

Nov 13 '25 19:11 leofang