[Distutils] inconsistency between PEP425 and wheel tags

[Daniel Holth]

That should probably be considered a bug in bdist_wheel. I don't think
there has been any movement on alternate implementations choosing what
they want their PEP 425 tags to be.

Are you implementing your own wheel generator? (neat)



On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Brian Wickman <wickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> For interpreter-specific tags PEP425 says:
>
> "The version is py_version_nodot. CPython gets away with no dot, but if one
> is needed the underscore _ is used instead. PyPy should probably use its own
> versions here pp18, pp19."
>
> But in practice if you build with an alternate interpreter you just get the
> equivalent CPython version level, e.g.
> pycrypto-2.6.1-pp27-none-macosx_10_7_x86_64.whl for PyPy 2.2.1, when the PEP
> indicates it should be pp22.
>
> As an implementer, should I follow the spec or follow reality?  If the
> latter, should PEP425 be amended?
>
> thanks!
> brian
> twitter.com/wickman
>
>
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