On: Python wheel filenames have no canonical form

[amelius]

Also, when installing a wheel you can get a brief error message "Not a supported wheel on this platform" without an explanation of why this wheel is not compatible with your system, which can be infuriating.

[zbentley → amelius]

Yeah, that's incredibly frustrating.

There's an open issue about it which you can express support for, and some marginally-hacky code that you can paste into a "debug_wheel.py"-ish script to get unblocked in the short term, here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10793