[Distutils] platform specific python only wheels

[Daniel Holth]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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> On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:19, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Your best bet currently is to execute the "mv" command to change the
>> filename of the wheel.
>>
>> I think bdist_wheel should probably accept a setup() argument to set
>> the tags. Currently you can just set a "universal" flag which means
>> pure 2+3 python.
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> There's also --plat-name argument for the setuptools command, but that doesn't work.
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> I'd have to rename the platform tag from "any" to a list of supported platforms, is that correct?
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> That would give a pretty convoluted filename, because the platform tag doesn't allow for wildcards. That is, there is no way to specify "any linux", only something like "linux_x86_64" (to borrow a tag from PEP 425).

My position has been that if there is no alternative that works on a
different platform, then at least the wheel metadata should say
nothing. It's only there to allow the installer to pick among the best
of several alternatives.