You normally will not get wheels with compiled binaries on alpine anyway because it is not compatible with any of the platform tags (manylinux* is glibc only).

You normally will not get wheels with compiled binaries on alpine anyway because it is not compatible with any of the platform tags (manylinux* is glibc only). I think they're saying numpy won't compile with musl off the shelf, you need patches for alpine. Pip just won't help you there.