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

[Daniel Holth]

Yes, but the METADATA version of the metadata is not a standard.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't think it matters which number we use in the METADATA key/value
>> metadata... it's not even checked by anything.
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>> 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"?
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>>>> 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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> Compliance to standards matter. It's how you get reasonable interoperability.
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