‘pip setup.py bdist_wheel’ no longer builds forced non-pure wheels

I’ve just run into this issue myself with Python v2.7 and wheel v0.29.0 on Windows 7 x64, where I build a Python package with some pre-compiled extensions (complicated VisualStudio setup with SWIG and external DLLs). After examining the source code I have found that overriding Distribution.has_ext_modules works (automatically includes platform name and ABI tag): from … Read more