[Distutils] PEP 566 - metadata 1.3 changes

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 18:42:09 EST 2018


+1 from me for the adjustment Thomas suggested, since that's in the
intended vein of "properly document the status quo".

On 11 January 2018 at 00:54, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAICT the only missing feature from old-Metadata-2.0 is "description as
> message body", which places readable description text after the key/value
> pairs.

Do pip/PyPI/et al currently support that? If yes, then I think it
would be good to include. On the other hand, if it's a genuine
enhancement, then we probably want to defer it to metadata 1.4 in
order to clearly separate the "Update the specification to match
reality" step from the "Further improve the usability of the
specification" step.

Cheers,
Nick.

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