[Python-Dev] Edits to Metadata 1.2 to add extras (optional dependencies)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 15:25:24 CEST 2012


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wheel is a little different because once it's installed it is no
> longer a wheel, but it makes a decent example. That's not even
> repetition, it's just longer tag names. Repetition is having one
> Classifier: line for every trove classifier.
>
> It would be quite inconvenient to change the parser for PKG-INFO. It's
> a win to keep the file flat.

Cool, it's the namespace I care about. Every piece of extended
metadata must have an authority who gets to define what it means. If
that means people register a "virtual" PyPI project just to reserve an
extension namespace, I'm fine with that.

Cheers,
Nick.

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