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Use built distribution terminology for wheels - #2169

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@rgommers rgommers commented Oct 27, 2026 •

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This is a follow-up to gh-2099, making terminology usage between "wheel", "built distribution" and "binary distribution" consistent throughout the guide.

I left one existing reST label (_python-binary-distributions:), because it was already being referred to within the guide, and may also be linked to from elsewhere - didn't seem worth changing.


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@rgommers rgommers added the type: maintenance Regular maintenance of the guide, CI and repo label Oct 27, 2026
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Language seems correct to me.

Comment thread source/specifications/binary-distribution-format.rst
Comment thread source/overview.rst
Python binary distributions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. _python-binary-distributions:

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Here as well!

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Oops sorry about that - got them both now, that should be all of them.

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rgommers force-pushed the binary-built-distribution-terminology branch from 1f04dca to ac8973a Compare October 27, 2026 17:51
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