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Author ncoghlan
Recipients Arfrever, barry, brett.cannon, eric.snow, lemburg, ncoghlan, ned.deily, pitrou, python-dev, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2014-12-17.07:01:52
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As far as PEP 425 goes, we handwaved a *lot* in order to be able to improve the user experience of the CPython Windows and Mac OS X binary installers by pairing them up with wheel files on PyPI. That handwaving is the key reason wheels for other platforms are still disallowed: the compatibility tags simply don't provide the information they need to provide for installers to make good decisions.

I'd love to see a clear, needs based, revision of the compatibility tagging specification, that covers both source tagging and binary tagging, and gets away from the reliance on distutils.get_platform(). It's just a rather tedious exercise (as this issue shows...)
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2014-12-17 07:01:53ncoghlansetrecipients: + ncoghlan, lemburg, barry, brett.cannon, pitrou, vstinner, tim.golden, ned.deily, Arfrever, python-dev, eric.snow, zach.ware, steve.dower
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