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
The fix has now been pushed to the 3.15 branch.
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
This still works for me:
https://github.com/insightfulsystems/alpine-python/blob/5a34...
But I haven’t tested today’s version yet.
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.