On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, but the METADATA version of the metadata is not a standard. > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >>
Uh, it’s defined in the PEP standards. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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