[radlad]

Yeahhh, I understand the frustration of a breaking change to the build system, but I don't understand the vitriol at the maintainers.

Ultimately, projects upgrade/move. If you are dependent, that's something you need to deal with. If you're not ready to deal with it, then pin your dependencies until you are.

Many of the issues in the thread aren't necessarily problems with cryptography - for example pip not being able to deliver wheels to Alpine.