> but.... left pad, anyone? Actually, unless you're committing the wheels in your repo left-pad is more likely to happen with your solution than with a binary

> but.... left pad, anyone? Actually, unless you're committing the wheels in your repo left-pad is more likely to happen with your solution than with a binary since someone could login and remove all versions of Django from Pypi (unless it's just yanking them instead of completely deleting them, not sure). On the other hand, you can just commit a binary in the repo and it will keep working assuming you don't change platform.