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

[Daniel Holth]

Of course it will be updated as part of the integration after the new
metadata is official. I withdraw my objections on the condition that it is
not done hastily. I will also happily lower the minimum metadata version in
wheel if it helps since it doesn't strictly matter.

The real changes from 1.1 to 1.3 are mostly tiny.
On Feb 12, 2013 11:34 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 February 2013 14:54, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes you have my permission to put wheel infrastructure in core. Just do a
> > good job at it :-)
>
> The wheel spec mandates metadata format 1.2 or later in the PKG-INFO
> file. At the moment, distutils
> (distribution.dist.DistributionMetadata) only writes format versions
> 1.0 or 1.1. I see no reason to *not* reuse existing core code, but
> equally I don't particularly intend myself to add metadata 1.3 support
> to distutils.
>
> I would hope that when PEP 426 is accepted, distutils will be updated
> to allow writing of Metadata 1.3 format. At that point my bdist_wheel
> code can use it. (Given that PEP 427 *requires* 1.2 or later, it might
> be necessary for distutils to grow a "minimum version to use" flag
> somehow, but that's not a big deal). Otherwise, adding wheel support
> to distutils doesn't seem credible...
>
> Personally, I think that making distutils (or at least *somewhere* in
> the core) offer metadata 1.3 format output should be a requirement for
> accepting PEP 426.
>
> Paul
>
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