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change-wheel-version
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A script to change the version of a package inside a pre-existing wheel.
This is useful for e.g. adding a local version to a custom built wheel, without having to jury rig its build process:
pipx run change_wheel_version some.whl --local-version special.build.info
Note that this only affects the packaging metadata, not any version numbers in code.
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Change the version of a wheel file
We found that change-wheel-version demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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