I don't think it matters which number we use in the METADATA key/value metadata... it's not even checked by anything.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 February 2014 18:16, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>> but my question was what are you adding, if anything, >>> that warranted it having "Metadata-Version: 2.0"? >> >> I believe that the fields 'Private-Version', 'Obsoleted-By', >> 'Setup-Requires-Dist', >> 'Extension' and 'Provides-Extra' were added on top of the 1.2 metadata in an >> early version of PEP 426, before the move to JSON. > > For the record, > http://hg.python.org/peps/file/3b67372b39ba/pep-0426.txt is the last > version prior to the switch to JSON, and the summary of differences is > at http://hg.python.org/peps/file/3b67372b39ba/pep-0426.txt#l1263 > > At that time, I think wheel still had a dependency on PEP 426 - > changing wheels to work with the setuptools metadata was a relatively > late change after we realised it made sense to decouple the two > activities. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
