Wheels for free-threaded Python now available for psutil (gmpy.dev)

Wow, long time no see.

psutil is a great project and I do have some future plans involving it.

https://hugovk.github.io/free-threaded-wheels/ is looking pretty healthy - 130 of the 360 most downloaded C extension PyPI packages are now free-threaded Python compatible, up from 92 on 15th August https://web.archive.org/web/20250815071755/https://hugovk.gi...

I was curious as to how that site works - it has a build script at https://github.com/hugovk/free-threaded-wheels/blob/cdae0b45... which checks the PyPI available file downloads for a package and looks for a bdist_wheel that matches this:

  abi_tag = download["filename"].removesuffix(".whl").split("-")[-2]
  if abi_tag.endswith("t") and abi_tag.startswith("cp31"):
      has_free_threaded_wheel = True

It has never been clear to me what the term "wheels" means in software releases. seems like something along the lines of "thing that works" – does it mean anything more specific than that?