Wheel tool doesn't resolve whl for some versions

[samwestmoreland]

E.g. it's unable to find any wheels for version 3.12.2 of protobuf, even though it looks on PyPI like there are wheels available.

python_wheel(
     name = "protobuf",
     outs = ["google"],
-    version = "3.12.2",
+    version = "3.18.1",
     deps = [":six"],
 )

[samwestmoreland]

This seems to only be an issue with protobuf - distlib doesn't pick up any urls for any version before 3.18.1. I can't reproduce with any other libraries however (tried tensorflow and cryptography), so for now I'll say this is just something going on between distlib and protobuf and not our concern. And I guess we should update the version of protobuf we're using in the plugin just to be safe.

[tiagovtristao]

Interesting... So distlib can't find older versions of protobuf, did you find anything online about this? Do you know what might be the issue?

[samwestmoreland]

This appears to still be an issue. @tiagovtristao noticed a problem in the last couple of days with the wheel resolver tool not able to find wheels in the index for protobuf 3.18.1, and bumping the version again to 3.19.3 fixed it. So if this is going to keep happening we probably ought to get to the bottom of it.