[bdbarnett]

Once a release is tagged, pip install omnipython-airwindows will install a prebuilt wheel instead of compiling 528 plug-ins. A release builds 30 wheels: CPython 3.11 to 3.15 (and 3.15t) on Linux x86_64, Linux aarch64, Windows and macOS on Apple Silicon, plus 3.13 and 3.14 for Android (arm64, x86_64) and Pyodide. Each wheel except Android and Pyodide installs into a clean environment and renders PurestDrive. Pre-releases go to TestPyPI and a GitHub pre-release; finals go to PyPI after a maintainer approves the pypi environment. The install page, CONTRIBUTING's release section and the roadmap bullet describe this, and the install page carries the uv line with --index-strategy unsafe-best-match that a TestPyPI install needs.

This puts the package on the same publishing workflow the other compiled packages use, at the same pin (publishing-v21). Before it, the only install was pip install git+..., which compiles everything.

I ran the wheel build for this branch through the shared build workflow on a temporary pull-request trigger (removed again in the last commit). All six jobs passed, each wheel's simpletest passed where it runs, and the workflow validated exactly 30 wheels. Job times: Windows 16 min, macOS 16 min, Android 7 min, Pyodide 4 min, Linux aarch64 6 min and Linux x86_64 7 min; the Linux jobs ran with a warm cache, and their first, cold runs took 21 and 20 min, so expect 20 minutes or more on a first build. Wheels are 1.1 to 2.2 MB on macOS, Windows, Android and Pyodide, 2.76 MB on Linux x86_64 and 2.23 MB on Linux aarch64. The Linux builds pass -g0, so the extension carries no debug information; those wheels were 11.3 and 10.5 MB before.

I downloaded the Linux x86_64 cp312 wheel, installed it into a new venv, and Galactic on noise printed the same peaks as the README (247, 343, 307, 243). The wheel holds the compiled module, audioairwindows.py and the licence files, and no C sources. I did not run the publish jobs: nothing was uploaded, and the pypi environment, the PyPI Trusted Publisher and the TestPyPI project haven't been checked from here.