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by guitarbill 1902 days ago
Where do you find Alpine-compatible wheels? Many ones uploaded to PyPI aren't, because e.g. both GitHub actions [0] and Azure pipelines [1] don't have Alpine images. Is it reasonable to expect maintainers of small, open-source libraries to write and maintain their own Alpine runners?

I guess if you know your company's workflow depends on Alpine, you can build and cache them yourself. But the wider community doesn't benefit from that.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runne...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agen...

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I was not aware of prior work so I maintain Alpine wheels for packages I use personally in a GitHub org.

https://github.com/alpine-wheels/index

Besides my own needs, only one other person has requested additional packages, which I was happy to add. Maintenance is minimal, mostly just approving pull requests created by Dependabot.

That's pretty slick! Thanks