That article should be titled, “Most Python packages do not upload an Alpine-compatible wheel to PyPI.”
If you know where to find Alpine-compatible wheels, or host your own, Alpine has no build-speed penalty.
If you know where to find Alpine-compatible wheels, or host your own, Alpine has no build-speed penalty.
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...
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.
The manylinux specification assumes glibc, so there is no valid distribution format which would allow the publication of non-glibc wheels.
However there is an in-progress PEP to support it: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0656/