Sure. But if the build utility was just some binary, then it wouldn't matter. If Go was abandoned by all maintainers tomorrow or they broke all the packages, th

Sure. But if the build utility was just some binary, then it wouldn't matter. If Go was abandoned by all maintainers tomorrow or they broke all the packages, the already built binary will still work. Should someone have changed the Python build tool to be 2.7 or 3? Maybe if they were bored and new it was something that needed work or wanted to be good tech citizen. However, what really happened is that no one even knew what the tool was really doing, just that it was part of a suite of tools in a build process, and no one would have looked twice at it ever again had wheel not removed support for 2.6. /me shrugs.