On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Calling it version 3 is a fine solution, and the spec has changed >> enough from key/value 2.0 to json 2.0, and grown a year older, that >> it's also appropriate to bump the version again. > > > appropriate to bump? "key/value 2.0" was never a thing. > I don't like switching to 3.0, unless we really have to. > It looks odd from the outside. > like we're switching gears again in some major way > > btw, what is in wheel's "2.0" METADATA file that is 2.0? and what's using > it? > > can't bdist_wheel at least stop setting metadata to 2.0 from here on?
METADATA is the key/value file that setuptools uses when it finds a .dist-info directory. It resembles pre-JSON PEP 426. It can be classified as setuptools metadata now. The next bdist_wheel will remove pydist.json. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
