> On Sep 16, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 16 September 2014 12:39, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Surely having a spec for a requirement has to be part of the sign-off >>> requirements for Metadata 2.0? >> >> Donald already noted that most of these details were moved to PEP 440, >> despite being in PEP 426 in earlier drafts. >> >> This had two primary benefits: > > Thanks, yes. I knew it must be somewhere, I just couldn't work out > where. Sorry for the noise. > > One thing that might be worth clarifying somewhere/somehow (not > particularly in the specs, though) is where is the best place to find > the "canonical" implementations of the various metadata specs. At one > point, distlib seemed to be taking that role, but I'm not sure it is > any more. Is that the role the "packaging" project is now taking on? > This is where I think it's a shame that this infrastructure isn't > being added to the stdlib - knowing that if you use "import > packaging.pep440" from the stdlib (or a backport of it) you get the > official semantics is a major help in writing one-off utility scripts. > For many of my scripts, I've spent longer looking for a good > implementation of the standard stuff (or writing it myself) than I > have writing the application logic :-( > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
It’s in the references section of PEP 440, although that links to the PR that has since been merged so that can likely be updated. I’m hesitant to include any of this stuff in the stdlib as of right now. It wouldn’t have helped you here since PEP 440 wasn’t approved until after 3.4 was out so the earliest it would be in is Python 3.5. Perhaps once we have most of the pieces fitted together and working sanely it would be a good time to figure out what, if any should be moved to the stdlib. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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