On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:19, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > There's also --plat-name argument for the setuptools command, but that > doesn't work. > > I'd have to rename the platform tag from "any" to a list of supported > platforms, is that correct? > > 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. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
