How to force a python wheel to be platform specific when building it?

Question

I am working on a python2 package in which the setup.py contains some custom install commands. These commands actually build some Rust code and output some

Answer 1

You can also specify/spoof a specific platform name when building wheels by specifying a --plat-name:

python setup.py bdist_wheel --plat-name=manylinux1_x86_64