[Distutils] distlib and wheel metadata

[Daniel Holth]

I would accept a pull request to stop generating metadata.json in
bdist_wheel.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:16 PM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Vinay Sajip via Distutils-SIG
> <distutils-sig at python.org> wrote:
> >> humpty in term uses uses distlib which seems to mishandle wheel
> >> metadata. (For example, it chokes if there's extra distribution meta and
> >> makes it impossible for buildout to install python-dateutil from a
> wheel.)
> >
> > I looked into the "mishandling". It's that the other tools don't adhere
> to
> > [the current state of] PEP 426 as closely as distlib does. For example,
> > wheel writes JSON metadata to metadata.json in the .dist-info directory,
> > whereas PEP 426 calls for that data to be in pydist.json. The non-JSON
> > metadata in the wheel (the METADATA file) does not strictly adhere to
> any of
> > the metadata PEPs 241, 314, 345 or 426 (it has a mixture of incompatible
> > fields).
> >
> > I can change distlib to look for metadata.json, and relax the rules to be
> > more liberal regarding which fields to accept, but adhering to the PEP
> isn't
> > mishandling things, as I see it.
>
> I thought the current status was that it's called metadata.json
> exactly *because* it's not standardized, and you *shouldn't* look at
> it?
>
> It's too bad that the JSON thing didn't work out, but I think we're
> better off working on better specifying the one source of truth
> everything already uses (METADATA) instead of bringing in *new*
> partially-incompatible-and-poorly-specified formats.
>
> -n
>
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