don't upload bdist to pypi

In short, bdist (binary distributions) created from a pure python project are universal. They cannot be made to use a platform-specific tag (like linux, windows, macos, etc). This changes the release CI workflow to skip creating/uploading a bdist to PyPI.

This library has a number of dependencies conditionally required per *machine* attributes (like CPU type). But pip (or other python package managers) will not be aware of such conditional dependencies because a bdist do not invoke a dynamic resolution of machine-specific dependencies. Universal bdists only resolve platform-specific dependencies (python version, system OS, etc) which isn't sufficient for this library. Instead, this paradigm is better left to a sdist (source distribution) which carry dependency details per machine-specific attributes in the setup.py file.

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a0eb8f585040b9b917433fced8551f7ff75c3f37..a3cedce02ca7bcd9a14069e9dc92b816d6399107 100644 (file)
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -35,5 +35,5 @@ jobs:
         for file in $(find -not -path "./.*" -not -path "./docs*" \( -name "*.py" -o -name "*.toml" \) ); do
             sed -i -e "s/0.0.0+auto.0/${{github.event.release.tag_name}}/" $file;
         done;
-        python -m build
+        python -m build -s
         twine upload dist/*