[Distutils] Metadata fields

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> Recently, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> said:
> > 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 ?
> 
> The version field has half the info. The other half needed is an easy
> way to find the most recent version. With a whole file of
> metainformation it's probably the easiest to just make the current
> metainformationfile readily accessible on the net (i.e. not only in
> an installer archive) and make the URL "permanent". Actually the URL
> doesn't even have to be permanent: if the version 1.0 metainfofile has
> a URL www.veryoldsite.com/bla/package/metainfo.xml, and that
> file (for version 2.0) has www.newersite.com/bla/package/metainfo.xml
> you could keep a chain of the things.

Good idea. How about a "Metainfo-URL" field which then points to
the metainfo file on some web-site ?! (It could default to
<homepage URL>/<package name>-metainfo.xml)

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