@@ -133,15 +133,15 @@ only, and indicates that the field value was calculated at wheel build time,
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and may not be the same as the value in the sdist or in other wheels for the
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project.
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- Note in particular that if you have a wheel, you cannot assume that a field
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- which is not marked as ``Dynamic `` will have the same value in other wheels, as
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- some wheels are not built directly from the sdist, but are modified from
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- existing wheels (the ``auditwheel `` tool does this, for example, and it's
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- commonly used when building wheels for PyPI). Such modifications * could *
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- include changing metadata (even non-dynamic metadata). Similarly, if you have
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- a sdist and a wheel which you didn't build from that sdist, you cannot assume
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- that the wheel's metadata matches that of the sdist, even if the field is not
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- marked as ``Dynamic ``.
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+ Note in particular that if you have obtained a prebuilt wheel, you cannot
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+ assume that a field which is not marked as ``Dynamic `` will have the same value
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+ in other wheels, as some wheels are not built directly from the sdist, but are
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+ modified from existing wheels (the ``auditwheel `` tool does this, for example,
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+ and it's commonly used when building wheels for PyPI). Such modifications
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+ * could * include changing metadata (even non-dynamic metadata). Similarly, if
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+ you have a sdist and a wheel which you didn't build from that sdist, you cannot
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+ assume that the wheel's metadata matches that of the sdist, even if the field
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+ is not marked as ``Dynamic ``.
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It is advisable, but not required, that tools which modify wheel metadata add
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the modified fields to the generated wheel's ``Dynamic `` field.
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