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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 27 Feb 2014 08:41, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26 February 2014 22:07, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> > We should probably start versioning dist-info directories.
>
> Probably. I'm not actually sure there's a formal spec for what's in a
> dist-info directory TBH. There's definitely a "plus anything else
> people put there" clause in practice, but I don't know if there's a
> list of the actual mandated files anywhere. PEP 426 says you put
> pydist.json in there, but that's the only file I know of that's
> documented.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/

The installation database is one of the things listed at the top of PEP 426
as requiring an update to document the inclusion of pydist.json.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> Paul
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