[Python-Dev] accept the wheel PEPs 425, 426, 427

[Daniel Holth]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Daniel Holth writes:
>
>  > Another solution comes to mind. Put the description in the payload.
>
> That would work for me, but it would cause extensibility problems if
> anybody later found a use for other formatted fields.  I have no
> intuition for that.

It's OK to limit the extensibility of this format. IIUC pypi usually
gets the metadata as a pre-parsed dict anyway, and the installer /
runtime does not need formatted fields at all (only parsing the name,
version, requirements to do dependency resolution).