[Python-Dev] PEP 425 comment: package names

[Daniel Holth]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM,  <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> ISTM that some important information and some elaboration is missing from
> PEP 425.
>
> The PEP is currently silent on how exactly these "compatibility tags" are
> combined
> with the package name, and the file extension. This should be specified, and
> preferably
> some examples be given.

Wheel specifies how it uses the tags. You have to strip the known
extension from the filename. I can include its example "this is how a
particular file format uses the tags" in the pep. It is
name-version-tag-tag-tag.ext with all - folded to _