I was just attempting to build an older uwsgi against a manylinux python 3.10 on RHEL7 (I am not allowed to upgrade it, sadly).

One of the issues I ran into was a missing libpython.a library. This was encountered in the original manylinux docker images, and to address it the manylinux image now includes them in compressed form: pypa/manylinux#1250 as it was less than 1% image increase I believe.

Could you consider including the appropriate compressed libpython.a in the image? If so I would be happy to create the PR to add it to the build and documentation to tell people where it is and how to get at it. Considering AppImages are by their nature compressed it may be possible to simply include the libpython.a file uncompressed in the right place anyway.

If you could point me to the file that bundles the files into squashfs I could simply include a decompression of the existing libpython.a files and copy the right one to the right place to automatically include it.

Thank you for all your hard work getting python going on ancient systems!