On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:31 PM, holger krekel
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 22:26 -0400, Daniel Holth wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, holger krekel
wrote: No one actually parses PKG-INFO so I expect the Metadata 2.0 transition to be relatively painless. I am actually intending to do exactly that in devpi-server. It's the only method to obtain metadata from a tar file without running setup.py ASFAIK.
That being said, when a new format and file comes around i am happy to detect that instead, i guess.
Unfortunately if you author a pypi server I count you as "no one" for this exercise. :-P And the most useful requirements metadata is in a setuptools .txt file anyway. Once you start seeing sdists with a .dist-info directory instead of an .egg-info or nothing you'll just look for pymeta.json. Wheel has code to convert from .egg-info to the newer formats.