[Distutils] local platform tags and pip wheel caching

[Paul Moore]

On 9 June 2015 at 20:09, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> I'm in favour of it - it fits the existing wheel spec; its opt-in,
> non-intrusive and solves a real, present problem. [just not the 'how
> do we get these damn things into PyPI, yet].

Agreed, it sounds like a reasonable approach.

One thought - rather than (ab)using the platform tag, maybe an
additional "variant" tag could be used (empty by default)? OTOH, I
don't see an obvious disadvantage to just using a custom platform tag.

Paul