[Distutils] PEP 566 - metadata 1.3 changes

[Daniel Holth]

Yes, after the PEP is prep'd.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
wrote:

> On the same note, wheel currently writes "2.0" as its metadata version.
> Shouldn't this be changed into 1.3 (along with ditching metadata.json)?
>
>
> Thomas Kluyver kirjoitti 12.01.2018 klo 17:26:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, at 11:42 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >> 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?
> > It looks like twine supports it, at least for wheels:
> >
> https://github.com/pypa/twine/blob/f74eae5506300387572c65c9dbfe240d927788c2/twine/wheel.py#L99
> >
> > I don't think pip needs to support it (does pip do anything with
> descriptions?). I haven't looked at PyPI's code, but I'd guess it uses the
> metadata sent with the upload by tools like twine and flit.
> >
> > Thomas
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