At the time (back in february or so) it was to use, before a change was made to use a built version of the library. Pip did not have prebuilt wheels at first.

At the time (back in february or so) it was to use, before a change was made to use a built version of the library. Pip did not have prebuilt wheels at first. It is just to build as you said _now_. There were several threads started about the situation at the time and I was also affected by it. Ultimately the problem is really the shitshow that is Python packaging, but I'm not winning that battle at work anytime soon. There aren't really great replacements for Ansible out there. That's not the only issue, however, as switching to Rust removed support for a number of niche platforms. pyca/cryptography is also a dependency for OpenWrt which runs on a number of these now-deprecated platforms.