[Distutils] How to handle launcher script importability?

[Paul Moore]

On 21 August 2013 10:48, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> I think Wheel files are (and should be) independent of the particular
> metadata version used. That file should contain the required information in
> order to know what version of the metadata is included with the Wheel. This
> means that as metadata evolves Wheels can just start using the new meta
> data version without requiring an update to the spec.


That implies that any wheel reference implementation needs to expose APIs
for reading and writing the metadata to/from the wheel. I don't have a
problem with that, but I don't think the existing implementations do[1]...
(And it could be a bit of a beast to design such an interface in a
sufficiently future-proof manner, unless we also standardise a metadata
object type...) Specifically, if I have a wheel and want to introspect it
to find out the author email address, how do I do this? ("Doing so is not
supported" is a valid answer, of course, but should also be documented...)

Paul

[1] Just checked. Distlib doesn't. Wheel doesn't (and wheel doesn't even
have a fully documented API). Pip's wheel support is purely internal so
doesn't count.
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