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

[Daniel Holth]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Calling it version 3 is a fine solution, and the spec has changed
>> enough from key/value 2.0 to json 2.0, and grown a year older, that
>> it's also appropriate to bump the version again.
>
>
> appropriate to bump? "key/value 2.0" was never a thing.
> I don't like switching to 3.0, unless we really have to.
> It looks odd from the outside.
> like we're switching gears again in some major way
>
> btw, what is in wheel's "2.0" METADATA file that is 2.0? and what's using
> it?
>
> can't bdist_wheel at least stop setting metadata to 2.0 from here on?

METADATA is the key/value file that setuptools uses when it finds a
.dist-info directory. It resembles pre-JSON PEP 426. It can be
classified as setuptools metadata now.

The next bdist_wheel will remove pydist.json.