Re: [Distutils] State of the wheel spec (Was: How to handle launcher script importability?)

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

However, the pydist.json that wheel currently writes is in the category of "arbitrary additional metadata in the dist-info directory", since the metadata 2.0 spec is still far from stable.

You can perhaps see why that could cause confusion - was that mentioned somewhere on this list? It certainly seems odd to add a pydist.json there if it's not needed; the natural thing to do is to assume that if it's there, it's usable. Unfortunately, the pydist.json that it currently writes is not conformant to the latest version of the PEP (though it passes schema validation) :-( Regards, Vinay Sajip