[Distutils] PEP 566 - metadata 1.3 changes

[Alex Grönholm]

Whichever we choose, the metadata version should match the PEP version, 
which it currently does not.


Nathaniel Smith kirjoitti 16.01.2018 klo 18:58:
> On Jan 12, 2018 8:00 AM, "Alex Grönholm" <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi 
> <mailto: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)?
>
>
> Should wheel change to emit 1.3, or should the PEP change to become 
> 2.0? I know there were great hopes for "metadata 2.0", but given that 
> there are bazillions of packages out there with a metadata version of 
> 2.0, we're never going to be able to meaningfully use that version 
> number for anything else, and it's confusing if when reading package 
> metadata the ordering is 1.2 < 2.0 == 1.3 < 1.4. So maybe we should 
> declare that this update is 2.0 or 2.1, the next one will be 2.1 or 
> 2.2, etc., and if anyone asks why the major version bump, well, it's 
> hardly the strangest thing we've done for compatibility :-). (And in 
> the unlikely event that PEP 426 lurches back to life, we can make it 3.0.)
>
> -n

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