Request: Package standalone binaries in Python Wheels on PyPI

[nathanscain]

I was looking at how I would integrate tailwindcss into a python project (not Django) as a development dependency. I found a third party package that downloaded the standalone binaries, but it requires using its own method of selecting a tailwind version via environment variables.

It would be preferred to have tailwindcss produce first-party wheels and publish them to PyPI as part of the release process so that devs can add it as a development dependency with a properly defined and optionally locked version.

In theory, this involves creating a zip file for each target and adding the binary to it alongside some metadata from other project files. I’m not sure if any tooling / build-backend has been created for node.js projects, but the wheel spec is standardized: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/binary-distribution-format/#binary-distribution-format

[nathanscain]

Basically, I want to be able to uv add --dev tailwindcss and have it be added as a dev dependency of my Python project with a tracked version.

[dependency-groups]
dev = [
  "tailwindcss >= 3.4.17",
  …
]

Then I’d be able to simply use uv run tailwindcss … in development and CI to run commands without having to configure special downloading for only tailwind.

Also would allow uvx tailwindcss … for direct executions of the cli without needing node