[Distutils] PEP 426 updated (with more than you ever wanted to know about version schemes)

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Projects which wish to use non-compliant version identifiers must
> restrict themselves to metadata v1.1
>
> currently, "Projects" don't have control over this, right?
> setuptools/distutils just writes 1.0 or 1.1 metadata, period.
> maybe that can be clarified for me and others.
> what can a project really do right now to use v1.3?  nothing, except wait
> for tool chain updates?
>

bdist_wheel converts a project's metadata to version 1.3 to express extras
and dependencies in wheel files.

pkg_resources (part of distribute) doesn't care about the version or the
payload section and works fine in the presence of md 1.3.
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