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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21 Jun, 2013, at 1:24, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > 1. Python setup.py sdist and python setup.py dist_info will be changed to generate pymeta.json files. But that will be for Python 3.4 only (there's a big problem if this doesn't make it into 3.4...). Unless there's a distutils backport or similar.
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> The initial vehicles for migration will be Daniel's bdist_wheel command and upgrades to setuptools.
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> Standard library support may not land for 3.4, but we will at least have the pip bootstrapping mechanism in place (which in turn will allow retrieval of setuptools).

What would be needed to land support for 3.4? Is it "just" a matter of pushing distlib to the stdlib and updating distutils (add a way to configure 2.0 metadata, add bdist_wheel and update sdist), or are there other other issues? Well, other than finalizing the PEP and its implementation in distlib?

Ronald