On 21 August 2013 23:20, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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

> Um, the current wheel spec uses PEP 345 + setuptools metadata only. If
distlib is expecting PEP 426 metadata in wheel files, it is not compliant with
the spec.

I can certainly rectify that - I was possibly confused by the fact that the
latest wheel implementation writes pydist.json to the wheel (though the Wheel-
Version in WHEEL is still 1.0).

Conversely, of course, there's no mention in the wheel spec that setuptools metadata (specifically entry-points.txt) should be present. Which is why I mentioned that the wheel spec might need a review/update to clarify this (if we want to ensure that any necessary script metadata is guaranteed to be present in compliant wheels).

Paul