[Distutils] Compatibility Tags and the Stable API

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 14:01:31 EDT 2016


You could manually change the tag to cp34.cp35.cp36-abi3 . The current
version pip running on those 3 versions of Python should recognize that tag.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:16 PM Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
wrote:

> Apologies for pestering...
>
> Is there any more information about this?
>
> I have cp34-abi3 wheels ready for release (ie. Python 3.4 or later) but
> they can't be installed with pip3.5. I could release them as cp35-abi3 but
> that will become a pain with the release of Python v3.6.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
> > On 9 Sep 2016, at 12:28 pm, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 9 Sep 2016, at 12:00 pm, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Correct. I have a pull request on wheel that does just that, and the
> next version of pip will be ready for it.
> >
> > Is there a release date for that version of pip? There's no point in me
> making releases that can't be installed.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016, 04:14 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure how to interpret PEP 425 when it comes to packages
> containing C extension modules that use the limited Python API (PEP 384).
> >>
> >> The Python v3.4 version of the limited API is used so should the
> compatibility tag be...
> >>
> >> cp34-abi3-*
> >>
> >> That would mean that the 'cp34' Python tag would have to be interpreted
> as a minimum (rather than exact) requirement.
> >>
> >> Grateful for any clarification.
> >>
> >> Phil
>
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