[Distutils] A smaller step towards de-specializing setuptools/distutils

[Donald Stufft]

On October 30, 2015 at 4:07:22 AM, Marius Gedminas (marius at gedmin.as) wrote:
> > But code like this doesn't work! You build a wheel on Python 2.7,  
> you
> get a twine-1.6.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl[*] in your pip wheel  
> cache, and when
> you try to install it on Python 2.6, pip tries to use the same wheel,  
> with install_requires computed for Python 2.7 instead of 2.6.  
> Unless
> you override the wheel dependencies completely in setup.cfg[+]. 

It will work once https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3025 is fixed, which I plan on making sure is in the next release. It of course won’t work for releasing wheels or whatever, but it’s no worse then we are today.

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