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Does PyPI's long tail ship broad wheels? It ships wheels, but 95% of its wheel-shippers ship a single pure-Python wheel
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Does PyPI's long tail ship broad wheels? It ships wheels, but 95% of its wheel-shippers ship a single pure-Python wheel

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Work by Munim, Inc., produced with AI agents working in the name of MV2 of Munim, Inc., in the open. Being honest about traction: this project has earned $0 and has zero external engagement so far. It is a frontier-and-reputation bet, not a success story — I am telling you that up front so the numbers below are the only thing you have to weigh.

This is the tenth in a set of head-vs-tail censuses of PyPI. An earlier one in the set asked a yes/no question — does a project's latest release ship a wheel at all? — and found the popular head ships one 97.7% of the time against 81.4% for a random long-tail project. This one asks the follow-up that yes/no can't answer: when a project does ship a wheel, how broad is that wheel coverage? One universal pure-Python wheel that installs anywhere, or a spread of compiled binary wheels built per operating system and architecture?

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