[Distutils] Platform tags for OS X binary wheels

[Daniel Holth]

It should already be sorted. Try python -c "import pprint, pip.pep425tags;
pprint.pprint(pip.pep425tags.get_supported())"

Do none of the tags for the available numpy wheels appear in that list?

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:48 PM Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just tried to run `pip install numpy` on my OS X 10.10.3 box, and it
> proceeds to download and compile the tarball from PyPI from source (very
> slow). I see, however, that pre-compiled OS X wheel files are available on
> PyPI for OS X 10.6 and later.
>
> Checking the code, it looks like pip is picking up the platform tag
> through `distutils.util.get_platform()`, which returns 'macosx-10.5-x86_64'
> on this machine. At root, I think this comes from
> the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 entry in the Makefile at
> `python3.5/config-3.5m/Makefile`. I know that this value is used by
> distutils compiling python extension modules -- presumably so that they can
> be distributed to any target machine with OS X >=10.5 -- so that's good.
> But is this the right thing for pip to be using when checking whether a
> binary wheel is compatible? I see it mentioned
> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0425/#id13> in PEP 425, so perhaps
> this was already hashed out on the list.
>
> Best,
> Robert
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