I would accept a pull request to stop generating metadata.json in bdist_wheel.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:16 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Vinay Sajip via Distutils-SIG > <distutils-sig@python.org> wrote: > >> humpty in term uses uses distlib which seems to mishandle wheel > >> metadata. (For example, it chokes if there's extra distribution meta and > >> makes it impossible for buildout to install python-dateutil from a > wheel.) > > > > I looked into the "mishandling". It's that the other tools don't adhere > to > > [the current state of] PEP 426 as closely as distlib does. For example, > > wheel writes JSON metadata to metadata.json in the .dist-info directory, > > whereas PEP 426 calls for that data to be in pydist.json. The non-JSON > > metadata in the wheel (the METADATA file) does not strictly adhere to > any of > > the metadata PEPs 241, 314, 345 or 426 (it has a mixture of incompatible > > fields). > > > > I can change distlib to look for metadata.json, and relax the rules to be > > more liberal regarding which fields to accept, but adhering to the PEP > isn't > > mishandling things, as I see it. > > I thought the current status was that it's called metadata.json > exactly *because* it's not standardized, and you *shouldn't* look at > it? > > It's too bad that the JSON thing didn't work out, but I think we're > better off working on better specifying the one source of truth > everything already uses (METADATA) instead of bringing in *new* > partially-incompatible-and-poorly-specified formats. > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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