[Distutils] "not a supported wheel on this platform"

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:03:23 +0000
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2014 14:51, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > Does matching really happen that way?
> 
> Unfortunately yes :-(
> 
> get_supported() introspects the system you're installing on and builds
> a list of tag combinations it's willing to accept. In doing so it
> misses some that I'd consider obscure but reasonable (notably here,
> independent of Python implementation (py rather than cp) but
> architecture specific). I consider this a flawed design, but it's
> always been like this.
> 
> You'll need to raise a bug report for this. Actually two, as the
> pep425tags code is in both pip and wheel independently (the one you
> actually *want* is the pip one, though).

Apparently already reported to pip :-)
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1870
Reported to wheel at
https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel/issue/125/get_supported-should-return-more

Thanks for the explanations.

Regards

Antoine.