On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr@activestate.com> wrote:
[..] 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 ? There's no tool out there that understand PEP 345 / 1.2 yet. At this time, I'd encourage you to put 1.1 here unless you use PEP 345 fields.
Wasn't PEP 345 fully implemented for distutils1? Ah, I see that it is still "Draft" mode.
I'll switch it to Accepted now. But PEP 345 will not be implemented in Distutils, which is now feature frozen.
Can I use distutils2 to parse PKG-INFO (as a replacement for the `pkginfo` project)?
Yes you can.
Will it read all the fields despite the inaccurate Metadata-Version field?
Yes, it should work. Description fields (==long_description) containing empty lines will stay broken though, because they can't be read back. That's fixed in PEP 345 / 1.2 Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org