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

[Donald Stufft]

On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think it matters which number we use in the METADATA key/value
> metadata... it's not even checked by anything.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 February 2014 18:16, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> For the record,
>> http://hg.python.org/peps/file/3b67372b39ba/pep-0426.txt is the last
>> version prior to the switch to JSON, and the summary of differences is
>> at http://hg.python.org/peps/file/3b67372b39ba/pep-0426.txt#l1263
>> 
>> At that time, I think wheel still had a dependency on PEP 426 -
>> changing wheels to work with the setuptools metadata was a relatively
>> late change after we realised it made sense to decouple the two
>> activities.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>> 
>> --
>> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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