Python package for latest release uninstallable basically everywhere (except python 3.13 on *some* Linux and MacOS systems)

[dhdaines]

It appears that since version 1.2.5, you have only uploaded wheels to PyPI for Python 3.13, and only on i686, x86_64 and arm64 platforms on Linux and MacOS.

This is a big problem for anyone who wants to use the library, because it means that anyone not using these specific versions/platforms is completely unable to install this package from PyPI, since it has no source distribution.

As a reminder, I do have an outstanding PR which previously fixed this problem, and could still fix this problem, since it creates an actual source distribution package: #281

I don't mean to be impolite here but you should really, really fix this problem, if not, I will have to fork the project as it is unacceptable to have a package on PyPI that can't be installed from source.

[dhdaines]

Just a thought, since rustfst-ffi is a published crate, it should, I think, be possible to just split rustfst-python into a separate package which downloads/builds it from the Cargo repository.

Since there are a lot of things that need to be fixed in the Python binding, it would make sense to do this if your release schedule for the Rust library will continue to be yearly.

I will give this a try to see if it can work. Alternately it might be preferable to make an alternative Python binding which simply binds directly to the Rust API instead of going through cffi.

[dhdaines]

You can see what a standalone Python module that uses the published version of rustfst-ffi looks like on this branch: https://github.com/dhdaines/rustfst/tree/standalone_python

It builds from source with uv build without any issues on Python 3.8 through 3.14.