[Distutils] PEP 566 - metadata 1.3 changes

[Daniel Holth]

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:08 PM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
wrote:

> 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> 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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