[Distutils] The PEP 426 defined metadata version will be metadata 3.0

[Donald Stufft]

On Feb 26, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 February 2014 21:51, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> Well I don't really care if we do 3.0 or 2.0 it's just a number. I just mean
>> that you shouldn't parse a pydist.json inside of a Wheel unless you know
>> it's inside of a Wheel with Wheel-Version:
>> Whatever-We-Formally-Add-Pydistjson-To-Wheel in.
> 
> pydist.json files appear in dist-info directories currently, as well.
> Probably from installs of wheels (after all, installing a wheel
> essentially just dumps everything into site-packages, including the
> pydist.json). And there's no marker that I know of for the version of
> a dist-info directory. (Actually, the WHEEL file is also in there, so
> you could ignore pydist.json if there's also a WHEEL file saying
> version 1.0, but that's more in the realm of heuristics than actual
> standards-based rules...)
> 
> Paul

We should probably start versioning dist-info directories.

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Donald Stufft
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