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

Marcus Smith qwcode at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 05:26:04 CET 2014


>
>
> > 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.
>

roger, METADATA is a PEP376/dist-info file that
`pkg_resources.DistInfoDistribution` understands.
but my question was what are you adding, if anything, that warranted it
having "Metadata-Version: 2.0"?
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