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

[Paul Moore]

On 21 June 2013 15:52, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the meantime, once sdist 2.0 is officially defined in a PEP, build
> tools will be able to define their own metadata extensions to record
> whatever they want in the sdist files. They'll also be free to add
> arbitrary files to the dist-info directory and have them propagate
> through the wheel files and all the way to the installation database.
>

Ah, OK. I see how that would work now. Thanks for the clarification.
Paul
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