[Distutils] Metadata fields

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> Could we add a field that would allow for the functionality that is
> now in the (very little known) checkversion.py script?

Doesn't the Version field have this information ?
 
> I think that it would be good enough if the metadata file contained
> the URL where the current metadata file is stored. What checkversion
> would then do is run through your Python installation looking for
> metadata files, and for each one found it would retrieve the current
> version of that file over the net. If the version number in the
> net-based file was higher than the one in the file on your disk it
> would tell you there's a new version of the package available (and
> probably offer to download it, etc).

Nice idea -- perhaps we could integrate this using the warning
framework and using a special Python command line option to trigger
the check version testing... <ok, dreaming again ;->

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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