[Distutils] Draft PEP for JSON based metadata published

[holger krekel]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 22:26 -0400, Daniel Holth wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> No one actually parses PKG-INFO so I expect the Metadata 2.0
> transition to be relatively painless.

I am actually intending to do exactly that in devpi-server.
It's the only method to obtain metadata from a tar file without
running setup.py ASFAIK.

That being said, when a new format and file comes around
i am happy to detect that instead, i guess.

holger