diff --git a/lib/internal/python/selectWheel.nix b/lib/internal/python/selectWheel.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f671fcc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/internal/python/selectWheel.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+# MIT Licensed by @adisbladis
+# this is vendored from poetry2nix atm, because it uses pyprojects pep599 instead of poetryLib,
+# to get going while testing the design.
+# FIXME: just port selectWheel to pyproject.nix
+# https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/blame/master/pep425.nix
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  pep599,
+  python,
+  isLinux ? stdenv.isLinux,
+}: let
+  inherit (lib.strings) escapeRegex hasPrefix hasSuffix hasInfix splitString removeSuffix;
+  targetMachine = pep599.manyLinuxTargetMachines.${stdenv.targetPlatform.parsed.cpu.name} or null;
+
+  pythonVer = let
+    ver = builtins.splitVersion python.version;
+    major = builtins.elemAt ver 0;
+    minor = builtins.elemAt ver 1;
+    tags = ["cp" "py"];
+  in {inherit major minor tags;};
+  # Builds with and without pymalloc (m) are ABI compatible since python 3.8 (bpo-36707)
+  abiTag =
+    "cp${pythonVer.major}${pythonVer.minor}"
+    + lib.optionalString (builtins.compareVersions python.version "3.8" < 0) "m";
+
+  #
+  # Parses wheel file returning an attribute set
+  #
+  toWheelAttrs = str: let
+    entries' = splitString "-" str;
+    el = builtins.length entries';
+    entryAt = builtins.elemAt entries';
+
+    # Hack: Remove version "suffixes" like 2.11.4-1
+    entries =
+      if el == 6
+      then [
+        (entryAt 0) # name
+        (entryAt 1) # version
+        # build tag is skipped
+        (entryAt (el - 3)) # python version
+        (entryAt (el - 2)) # abi
+        (entryAt (el - 1)) # platform
+      ]
+      else entries';
+    p = removeSuffix ".whl" (builtins.elemAt entries 4);
+  in {
+    pkgName = builtins.elemAt entries 0;
+    pkgVer = builtins.elemAt entries 1;
+    pyVer = builtins.elemAt entries 2;
+    abi = builtins.elemAt entries 3;
+    platform = p;
+  };
+
+  #
+  # Builds list of acceptable osx wheel files
+  #
+  # <versions>   accepted versions in descending order of preference
+  # <candidates> list of wheel files to select from
+  findBestMatches = versions: candidates: let
+    v = lib.lists.head versions;
+    vs = lib.lists.tail versions;
+  in
+    if (builtins.length versions == 0)
+    then []
+    else (builtins.filter (file: hasInfix v file) candidates) ++ (findBestMatches vs candidates);
+
+  # x = "cpXX" | "py2" | "py3" | "py2.py3"
+  isPyVersionCompatible = pyver @ {
+    major,
+    minor,
+    tags,
+  }: x: let
+    isCompat = m:
+      builtins.elem m.tag tags
+      && m.major == major
+      && builtins.compareVersions minor m.minor >= 0;
+    parseMarker = v: let
+      tag = builtins.substring 0 2 v;
+      major = builtins.substring 2 1 v;
+      end = builtins.substring 3 3 v;
+      minor =
+        if builtins.stringLength end > 0
+        then end
+        else "0";
+    in {inherit major minor tag;};
+    markers = splitString "." x;
+  in
+    lib.lists.any isCompat (map parseMarker markers);
+
+  #
+  # Selects the best matching wheel file from a list of files
+  #
+  selectWheel = files: let
+    filesWithoutSources = builtins.filter (file: hasSuffix ".whl" file) files;
+    isPyAbiCompatible = pyabi: x:
+      x
+      == "none"
+      || hasPrefix pyabi x
+      || hasPrefix x pyabi
+      || (
+        # The CPython stable ABI is abi3 as in the shared library suffix.
+        python.passthru.implementation
+        == "cpython"
+        && builtins.elemAt (lib.splitString "." python.version) 0 == "3"
+        && x == "abi3"
+      );
+    withPython = ver: abi: x: (isPyVersionCompatible ver x.pyVer) && (isPyAbiCompatible abi x.abi);
+    withPlatform =
+      if isLinux
+      then
+        if targetMachine != null
+        then
+          # See PEP 600 for details.
+          (
+            p:
+              builtins.match "any|(linux|manylinux(1|2010|2014))_${escapeRegex targetMachine}|manylinux_[0-9]+_[0-9]+_${escapeRegex targetMachine}" p != null
+          )
+        else (p: p == "any")
+      else if stdenv.isDarwin
+      then
+        if stdenv.targetPlatform.isAarch64
+        then (p: p == "any" || (hasInfix "macosx" p && lib.lists.any (e: hasSuffix e p) ["arm64" "aarch64"]))
+        else (p: p == "any" || (hasInfix "macosx" p && hasSuffix "x86_64" p))
+      else (p: p == "any");
+    withPlatforms = x: lib.lists.any withPlatform (splitString "." x.platform);
+    filterWheel = file: let
+      f = toWheelAttrs file;
+    in
+      (withPython pythonVer abiTag f) && (withPlatforms f);
+    filtered = builtins.filter filterWheel filesWithoutSources;
+    choose = files: let
+      osxMatches = ["12_0" "11_0" "10_15" "10_14" "10_12" "10_11" "10_10" "10_9" "10_8" "10_7" "any"];
+      linuxMatches = ["manylinux1_" "manylinux2010_" "manylinux2014_" "manylinux_" "linux_" "any"];
+      chooseLinux = x: lib.head (findBestMatches linuxMatches x);
+      chooseOSX = x: lib.head (findBestMatches osxMatches x);
+    in
+      if isLinux
+      then chooseLinux files
+      else chooseOSX files;
+  in
+    if (builtins.length filtered == 0)
+    then null
+    else choose filtered;
+in
+  selectWheel
diff --git a/modules/dream2nix/WIP-python-pdm/default.nix b/modules/dream2nix/WIP-python-pdm/default.nix
index 48ae781b..7a321da0 100644
--- a/modules/dream2nix/WIP-python-pdm/default.nix
+++ b/modules/dream2nix/WIP-python-pdm/default.nix
@@ -10,9 +10,16 @@
 
   libpyproject = import (dream2nix.inputs.pyproject-nix + "/lib") {inherit lib;};
 
+  selectWheel = import ../../../lib/internal/python/selectWheel.nix {
+    inherit lib;
+    pep599 = libpyproject.pep599;
+    python = config.deps.python3;
+    stdenv = config.deps.stdenv;
+  };
+
   lock_data = lib.importTOML config.pdm.lockfile;
   environ = libpyproject.pep508.mkEnviron config.deps.python3;
-  selector = libpdm.preferWheelSelector;
+  selector = config.pdm.sourceSelector;
 
   pyproject = libpdm.loadPdmPyProject (lib.importTOML config.pdm.pyproject);
 
@@ -33,16 +40,20 @@ in {
     ../core/deps
     ./interface.nix
   ];
+  pdm.sourceSelector = lib.mkDefault selectWheel;
   deps = {nixpkgs, ...}: {
     inherit
       (nixpkgs)
       curl
       jq
       stdenvNoCC
+      python3
+      stdenv
       ;
   };
   commonModule = {
     options.sourceSelector = import ./sourceSelectorOption.nix {inherit lib;};
+    # TODO: per dependency selector isn't yet respected
     config.sourceSelector = lib.mkOptionDefault config.pdm.sourceSelector;
   };
   groups = let