Choosing Between sdist and Wheels for PyPI Distribution
Learn when to use Source Distributions (sdist) versus Wheels (.whl) for PyPI packages to balance installation speed and cross-platform compatibility.
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pypiChoosing Between Source Distributions and Wheels for PyPI Publishing
Learn how to choose between Source Distributions (sdist) and Binary Wheels for PyPI. This guide compares installation speed, compatibility, and the manylinux standard to help you implement a hybrid publishing strategy.
Choosing Between Poetry Dependency Groups, Extras, and Markers for Environment-Specific Dependencies
Decide where each non-core dependency lives in a Poetry project: groups for internal tooling, extras for user-facing optional features, markers for platform conditions — with a concrete pyproject.toml layout, install commands per environment, and validation steps.
poetryPoetry dependency resolver backtracking during lock file generation
Resolver Performance and Constraint Conflict Poetry uses a deterministic resolver and a backtracking algorithm to generate the poetry.lock file based on the constraints defined in pyproject.toml . While this ensures environment consistency, the resolution process can encounter performance bottlenecks when managing deeply nested dependency trees or restrictiv