On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:

On August 20, 2015 at 3:23:09 PM, Daniel Holth (dholth@gmail.com) wrote:
> If you need that for some reason just put the longer information in the
> metadata, inside the WHEEL file for example. Surely "does it work on my
> system" dominates, as opposed to "I have a wheel with this mnemonic tag,
> now let me install debian 5 so I can get it to run".
>
>

It’s less about “now let me install Debian 5” and more like tooling that doesn’t run *on* the platform but which needs to make decisions based on what platform a wheel is built for.

This makes binary-compatibility.cfg much more difficult, however. There'd still have to be a maintained list of "platform" to hash.

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