On 2010-03-19, at 2:27 PM, Tarek Ziad� wrote:

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Tarek Ziad� <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
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You can't do it, distutils will automatically set 1.0 or 1.1 depending
on the options you have used. (and not 1.2)

Re-reading the current distutils (1) code, I realize that it'll switch
to 1.1 *only* if you have used
provides, requires or obsolete, so it's partially implemented.

Ok. As a result of this, PKG-INFO that contains the "Classifiers" fields still has 1.0 as Metadata-Version. Consequently, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo fails to read extra metadata fields. If Tres is reading this, I had to do the following hack as a workaroud:

from pkginfo import Distribution

class PkgInfoFile(Distribution):

# Not all packages' PKG-INFO define the proper metadata

# For eg., modern-package-template uses the Classifiers field and yet

# uses 1.0 as the metadata version (Classifiers is only defined in 1.1)

metadata_version = '1.2' # not all PKG-INFO file have proper metadata version

The new class is much cleaner in the implementation, and so is the
register command for PyPI.

Notice that we have almost finished the implementation of PEP 345 on
PyPI side so we will soon be able to push PEP 345 fields over there.