By popular demand, the development version of wheel now includes the tag for packages that include a binary but don't need a particular Python or ABI - for example, cffi or ctypes packages using dlopen. It's just after the implementation-specific tags. There is not a flag to get bdist_wheel to tag packages this way; you would have to rename them to get wheels bearing the new tag. The complete list on PyPy is currently [('pp27', 'none', 'linux_x86_64'), ('pp27', 'none', 'any'), ('pp2', 'none', 'any'), ('pp26', 'none', 'any'), ('pp25', 'none', 'any'), ('pp24', 'none', 'any'), ('pp23', 'none', 'any'), ('pp22', 'none', 'any'), ('pp21', 'none', 'any'), ('pp20', 'none', 'any'), ('py2', 'none', 'linux_x86_64'), ('py27', 'none', 'any'), ('py2', 'none', 'any'), ('py26', 'none', 'any'), ('py25', 'none', 'any'), ('py24', 'none', 'any'), ('py23', 'none', 'any'), ('py22', 'none', 'any'), ('py21', 'none', 'any'), ('py20', 'none', 'any')] I've also merged a contribution from Benedikt Morbach that sorts the generated metadata to make it deterministic, and have tagged some of the previous released. If there are no complaints I'll probably release as 0.25.0 in a few days. Daniel Holth