[Distutils] inconsistency between PEP425 and wheel tags

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 19:18:34 CET 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Brian Wickman <wickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> For now I'm just using bdist_wheel, but the question is more focused on the
> dependency resolution side where I need to select from a list of compatible
> wheels on a remote server.  As it stands, I will be very unsuccessful if
> bdist_wheel produces pp27 tags and my downloader only looks for
> distributions tagged with pp22. :-)
>
> Happy to send out some pull requests.  pip, wheel and distlib all get this
> wrong.  AFAICT pip/wheel use the same pep425tags code.  Does that have a
> shared home?
>
> ~brian

Best to update the bdist_wheel one.


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