On 30 Jan 2014, at 19:36, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
The py2app setup.py file currently hardcodes a platform check because users did install py2app on other platforms (mostly Windows) and then complained that it didn’t work. It is much nicer to tell the user that a package won’t work during installation. Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
