The DuckDB build process is fairly heavyweight, I guess due to lots of templated C++ (haven't checked the code yet ;)). Additionally I notice cc1 using at least 5GB memory during build, limiting the kinds of VMs DuckDB could even be installed.

Would it be possible to provide binary wheels for PyPI instead, at least for Linux? Assuming the dependency situation is straightforward (just libstdc++ for example), this may be as straightforward as 'pip install wheel twine' 'python setup.py bdist_whl', 'twine upload dist/*.whl' or similar.

Thanks