[Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

[Daniel Holth]

The Wheel implementation tries to put the license in LICENSE.txt inside
.dist-info. I didn't feel the need to mention it in metadata.

Metadata parsing is extremely unimportant in prior versions of the spec.
Correct me if a significant tool actually needs the file at all in v1.1,
except for development eggs where only the version is read.

I would like to remove environment marker support from useless fields like
the trove classifiers.
 On Feb 17, 2013 2:39 PM, "Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne at nexb.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/
> This is looking great!
>
> > License (optional)
> > ------------------
> [...]
> > The full text of the license would normally be included in a separate
> > file.
>
> I know it is late in the game to do modifications but I often find
> myself chasing down the actual full text of a license in a
> distribution.
> Would you be open to a new optional field that could point to the
> license file(s) that may be present with the distribution?
>
> May be something along these lines:
>
>
> License-File (multiple use)
> ------------------
>
> Optional file name or path to a file that contains the full text of the
> license, notice, copyright or other terms of use  that may
> be included in a distribution such as a LICENSE or COPYING
> file.  A path must be a posix path using ``/`` forward slash as
> path separator.  A path or file name must be interpreted as
> relative to the root directory of a distribution archive.
>
> Examples::
>
>     License-File: COPYING
>     License-File: COPYING.lib
>
>     License-File: docs/legal/APACHE.txt
>     License-File: docs/legal/NOTICE.txt
>
>
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