Tip revision of bdist_wheel ( https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/ ) supports this revision of the spec, with the description in a separate file. It also has better support for representing conditional dependencies in the metadata.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 June 2013 15:52, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In the meantime, once sdist 2.0 is officially defined in a PEP, build >> tools will be able to define their own metadata extensions to record >> whatever they want in the sdist files. They'll also be free to add >> arbitrary files to the dist-info directory and have them propagate >> through the wheel files and all the way to the installation database. > > > Ah, OK. I see how that would work now. Thanks for the clarification. > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig