<p dir="ltr">The problem is that sys.implementation is relatively new, so there's no standard way to retrieve the implementation version prior to that addition to the language spec. I agree the PEP should be explicit that that tag needs to reflect the implementation's *ABI* stability, which may or may not align with the Python language version.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We're going to need an update to the compatibility tagging spec to sort out the Linux distro compatibility issues anyway, so perhaps someone is prepared to tackle a revision to the compatibility tagging PEP?</p>
<p dir="ltr">(The relevant repo for draft specs is <a href="https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats">https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats</a> - although it occurs to me that could use some tags to reflect published versions of accepted PEPs)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>