[karlding]

I'm not sure if you're aware, but there's the Wheel Variants proposal [0] that the WheelNext initiative is working through that was presented at PyCon 2025 [1][2], which hopes to solve some of those problems.

uv has implemented experimental support, which they announced here [3].

[0] https://wheelnext.dev/proposals/pepxxx_wheel_variant_support...

[1] https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/presentation/100/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oki8vAWb1Q

[3] https://astral.sh/blog/wheel-variants