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

[Vinay Sajip]

> but my question was what are you adding, if anything,
> that warranted it having "Metadata-Version: 2.0"?


I believe that the fields 'Private-Version', 'Obsoleted-By', 'Setup-Requires-Dist',
'Extension' and 'Provides-Extra' were added on top of the 1.2 metadata in an
early version of PEP 426, before the move to JSON.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip




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