Re: [Distutils] How to specific metadata version in setup.py?

20 Mar 2010

      On 2010-03-19, at 2:51 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar
 wrote:
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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
Why do you force 1.2 here ?
From http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo

"Added support for the different metadata versions specified in PEPs 241,  314,  and 345. Distributions now parse and expose only the attributes corresponding to their metadata version,  which defaults to the version parsed from the PKG-INFO file. The programmer can override that version when creating the distribution object."

I could as well use 1.1.
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There's no tool out there that understand
PEP 345 / 1.2 yet.
Apparently pkginfo supports PEP 345 (see above).
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At this time, I'd encourage you to put 1.1 here unless you use PEP 345 fields.
Ok.

-srid