underrated comment. pypi could probably generate a lot of wheels. In fact, `pip` generates wheels from packages it downloades before installing them, so wheels

underrated comment. pypi could probably generate a lot of wheels. In fact, `pip` generates wheels from packages it downloades before installing them, so wheels can be generated for a lot of packages already directly from sdist. Why it isn't done already? Good question. I guess it has to do with a majority of python packages installing just fine from source (those that aren't a problem for packaging anyway), and then those packages that need wheels because they use native extensions kind of are high-maintenance to bundle and roll out, especially if upstream maintainers haven't invested in building their projects for that. I would love to see auto-bundled wheels. but I guess for this to fly, package maintainers would need to start standardizing a bit better (that also involves tooling). Easy things are missing, for example in setuptools you cannot even define smoke tests that distributors could use to verify successful bundling.