On 12 February 2013 14:54, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes you have my permission to put wheel infrastructure in core. Just do a > good job at it :-)
The wheel spec mandates metadata format 1.2 or later in the PKG-INFO file. At the moment, distutils (distribution.dist.DistributionMetadata) only writes format versions 1.0 or 1.1. I see no reason to *not* reuse existing core code, but equally I don't particularly intend myself to add metadata 1.3 support to distutils. I would hope that when PEP 426 is accepted, distutils will be updated to allow writing of Metadata 1.3 format. At that point my bdist_wheel code can use it. (Given that PEP 427 *requires* 1.2 or later, it might be necessary for distutils to grow a "minimum version to use" flag somehow, but that's not a big deal). Otherwise, adding wheel support to distutils doesn't seem credible... Personally, I think that making distutils (or at least *somewhere* in the core) offer metadata 1.3 format output should be a requirement for accepting PEP 426. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
