On August 20, 2015 at 3:23:09 PM, Daniel Holth (dho...@gmail.com) wrote: > If you need that for some reason just put the longer information in the > metadata, inside the WHEEL file for example. Surely "does it work on my > system" dominates, as opposed to "I have a wheel with this mnemonic tag, > now let me install debian 5 so I can get it to run". > >
It’s less about “now let me install Debian 5” and more like tooling that doesn’t run *on* the platform but which needs to make decisions based on what platform a wheel is built for. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
