publish sdist for pypi

[chenrui333]

👋 right now there is no sdist on pypi, can you publish the sdist there for easy downstream consumption? Thanks!

[BewareMyPower]

I will take a look when I started the next release

[chenrui333]

any luck @BewareMyPower? Thanks!

[BewareMyPower]

I'm preparing the C++ client 3.5.0 release that will include the fix for #199. After upgrading the depended C++ client to 3.5.0, I will start the release for the Python client and handle this issue.

[BewareMyPower]

It's hard to publish a source distribution currently unless rewriting the setup.py. I might not have time to look for a solution recently.

BTW, what's the purpose of having a source distribution rather than using the wheels?

[chenrui333]

BTW, what's the purpose of having a source distribution rather than using the wheels?

it is for downstream usage, mostly homebrew can just leverage pip tree to use the sdist.