Dec. 23, 2009
10:21 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote: [..]
if a "1.2" field is found and no "1.1" field is found: metadata 1.2 is used if a "1.1" field is found and no "1.2" field is found: metadata 1.1 is used + a warning is displayed if a "1.1" field is found and a "1.2" field is found: a warning is displayed and 1.2 is used, 1.1 fields are ignored if no 1.1 field or 1.2 fields are found: metadata 1.2 is used
That would be internal to Distutils btw. tools should consume PKG-INFO using the DistributionMetadata reader, looking for the various attributes. "requires", etc. would be kept, most of the time set to "None", then removed at the next Python version.