I created wheels from an existing venv, that resulted in, among others, the following wheel. The wheel was created within docker, with a Python version of 3.9 (the smallest possible versions were chosen to provide maximal compatibility)
wheels/codechecker-6.23.1-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
My requirements.txt has that version "6.23.1" listed. But when I try to install that version (with Python 3.11), using
python3 -m pip install --no-index --find-links wheels -r requirements.txt
Python gives an error message:
Looking in links: wheels Processing wheels/alembic-1.5.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement codechecker==6.23.1 (from > versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for codechecker==6.23.1
My suspicion is that the version encoding of "cp39" (for CPython3.9) somehow gets in the way with using it with CPython3.11, but from what I read, wheels should be upward-compatible and Pip should be downward compatible with older wheel versions. So what could be wrong here? Both systems are 64bit systems.
wheels/codechecker-6.23.1- cp39-cp39
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"But when I try to install that version (with Python 3.11)"
"wheels should be upward-compatible"
No, binary wheels can only be installed to exactly same platform (major Python version, OS, processor). You can create a binary wheel with Python 3.9.8 and install to 3.9.6 but not to 3.11.
Universal wheels like alembic-1.5.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl can be installed to any version/