If I understand this correctly, the issue is that pip/wheel cannot rely on the ABI version from pypy so they have no way if a wheel would still be compatible or not. So they just generate a different wheel for every version to avoid having to deal with that problem at all.
Is that correct? On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:24 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Jul 25, 2017 12:16 PM, "Antonio Cuni" <anto.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > note that this is not because of PyPy: it's the wheel package which > chooses what to include in the wheel filename: > > https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel/src/5d49f8cf18679d1bc6f3e1e414a5df3a1e492644/wheel/pep425tags.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#pep425tags.py-39 > > > Well, probably it is most correct to say that this happens because PyPy > has not come up with a coherent strategy for ABI compatibility and > communicated that to wheel/pip :-). > > In the mean time, if you want to live dangerously, you can always rename > your wheel something like 'foo-py2-pypy_41-linux_x86_64.whl', and then pip > will happily install it on newer pypys. Whether it will work though is hard > to say... > > -n >
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