On Nov 12, 2025, at 23:25, Sergey Fedorov wrote: > > Is there an existing mechanism to install a wheel from PyPi rather than > generating it locally from sources? > > Context of the problem: yt-dlp recommends JS runtime now, and that needs > their yt-dlp-ejs package. While JS runtime is not an issue for any platform, > since QuickJS is supported, among others, it is not sufficient to generate > .js files from ejs package. However those are not platform-specific, so while > NodeJS/Rust are broken on legacy systems, using the wheel should do just fine. > > Discussion: https://github.com/yt-dlp/ejs/issues/31
Thanks for referring me to that. I agree installing the prebuilt wheel seems like the way to go in this case but I don't know if we have any existing provisions to do so.
