Need binary wheels for other versions of Linux

[mkleehammer]

A simple pip install cryptography in a python 3.7 virtual environment fails on Windows with the same error as #6411. It is attempting to build from source (*.tar) instead of using a wheel.

I'm pretty sure the answer is obvious - the only CPython wheels are for Python 3.6. In the downloads the Python versions are cp36 and pp37, where "pp" is "PyPy". You'll notice the version of Python #6411 is Python 3.9.

When releasing binary wheels, you'll need to build them for all supported versions. I use a simple script to build a version for every "venv*" directory it finds. I believe there is a way to build version agnostic extensions, which I need to look into

I'm looking for version 3.7. The #6411 author is looking for 3.9. It sounds like a 3.8 and 3.10 would be good too.

[alex]

https://cryptography.io/en/latest/faq/#why-are-there-no-wheels-for-my-python3-x-version

[mkleehammer]

Thanks, I missed the abi3 in the filename. (I forgot they had the base version of Python in them.) For others, "recent versions of pip" does not include pip 19. 21.3 does work.

Thanks.