On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 27 February 2014 18:16, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> 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 | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
Compliance to standards matter. It’s how you get reasonable interoperability. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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