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> You can't use wheels

musl wheel support was added some time ago:

https://github.com/pypa/packaging/releases/tag/21.0

No idea how many packages actually build musl wheels though. From a quick glance at least cryptography and lxml has musl wheels.

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Unfortunately, Alpine patched their version of Python in a way that is incompatible with musllinux wheels so we are back to where we started until Alpine Linux 3.16 in 2022[1].

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Apparently, they have decided to amend the patch in a way that is both backwards-compatible and compatible with musllinux wheels[2]. Hopefully, it will roll out soon.

[1]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13227 [2]: https://bugs.python.org/msg406939

thanks, I had been scouring the internet for something on this. Didn't expect to come across it on HN

This will be addressed though

The fix has now been pushed to the 3.15 branch.

This still works for me:

https://github.com/insightfulsystems/alpine-python/blob/5a34...

But I haven’t tested today’s version yet.

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