<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Marcus Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qwcode@gmail.com" target="_blank">qwcode@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">>> Projects which wish to use non-compliant version identifiers must restrict themselves to metadata v1.1<div>
<br></div></div><div>currently, "Projects" don't have control over this, right?</div><div>setuptools/distutils just writes 1.0 or 1.1 metadata, period.</div>
<div>maybe that can be clarified for me and others.</div><div>what can a project really do right now to use v1.3? nothing, except wait for tool chain updates?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>bdist_wheel converts a project's metadata to version 1.3 to express extras and dependencies in wheel files.<br>
<br></div><div>pkg_resources (part of distribute) doesn't care about the version or the payload section and works fine in the presence of md 1.3.<br></div></div></div></div>