On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:49 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> As far as I can tell the only things that even use PKG-INFO is >>> setuptools/distribute and we want to phase them out of existence anyways. >> >> The only thing setuptools uses it for is to find out the version of a >> package in the case where an .egg-info directory or filename doesn't >> have a version in its filename... which normally only happens in the >> "setup.py develop" case. So no need to keep it around on my account. >> ;-) >> >> (Some tools do check for the *existence* of a PKG-INFO, like PyPI's >> sdist upload validation, and the various egg formats require a file >> *named* PKG-INFO, but AFAIK nothing commonly used out there actually >> *reads* PKG-INFO or gives a darn about its contents, except for that >> version usecase mentioned above.) >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > It will be OK. Take a deep breath and laugh at the idea that > string.rsplit(', ', 1) on a useless field that's probably already > posted as a dict to pypi should be considered a serious threat to the > future of packaging. If you didn't laugh you can write Metadata 3.0 / > define the JSON serialization and we'll write metadata.json into the > .dist-info directory. It's not the end of the world, it is the > beginning. Yea, it's totally about keywords and that's just not an example of a larger problem (like embedding little mini json documents) and what we need is another competing standard all because of a legacy file format for a file that barely anything uses right now (which makes it the ideal time _to_ replace it, before it starts being actively used in a widespread fashion). ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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