Add Source Distributions (sdists) and upload them to PyPi

[jonwinfrey-riverlane]

What is your feature request?

Please may source distributions (sdists) be distributed on PyPi as well as wheels? This would mean that the package could be built from source when a compatible wheel isn't available.

This could be used to easily support e.g. differing glibc versions and newer python versions.

(As an aside: thanks a lot for your recent changes to increase compatibility of wheels)

What solution or approach do you envision?

Adding a basic pyproject.toml to the root directory, as well as a setup.py to describe the C++ compilation.
This is how it's currently done in stim and chromobius.

How urgent is this for you?

P3 – not blocked; it's an idea

[jonwinfrey-riverlane]

I think this is related to what @NoureldinYosri is working on with fixing the build process currently. Currently we can't use later versions of this package as we rely on a linux system with glibc 2.34 (RHEL 9, still in full support and being updated by RedHat).

Having source distributions would make this package possible to install on many more systems. It would also make the wheel distribution process easier, as you wouldn't have to try and build for all platforms.