[Distutils] Updated drafts of metadata 2.0 (PEP 426 and PEP 440)

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21 Jun, 2013, at 14:21, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 June 2013 12:35, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The quick compatibility check is actually part of the wheel file
> naming specification (it's covered by the compatibility tags defined
> in PEP 425).
> 
> Yes, I was thinking more of the sdist side - and also of how a pure Python package can specify whether separate wheels are needed for Python 2 and Python 3, for example. There's a wheel-specific setup.cfg extension for this, but should it be in the metadata spec?

No, but it should be in the spec/documentation for the tool that builds sdists or wheels. That is, when metadata 2.0 support is added to distutils/setuptools/... it should document how the metadata is configured. 

Ronald