Re: Three clarification questions about PEP 425 and PyPy3

Brett Cannon <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 18:08 Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2018, at 9:05 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Basically I'm trying to figure out what tags pip and various tools should
> be matching when determining what wheel to download from PyPI (so that diff
> is what pip matches against now in two scenarios and how I think what is
> matched  against should change). The hope is this can be centralized into a
> library instead of being internalized in each tool like it is now.
>
>
> That would be great. I had planned on adding this to pypa/packaging, but
> never found the time to figure out a good API for it or the exact semantics
> we want.
>

Same here, which is why I'm trying to lock down the semantics. :)


> So Kudos for doing that work. Feel free to make it part of pypa/packaging
> if you want, or a distinct library is fine too!
>

I initially thought 'packaging', but I also don't want to care about Python
2. :) So I haven't decided yet. At worst this just leads to a clearer
understanding of how tools should do wheel compatibility matching.

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