AFAICT the only missing feature from old-Metadata-2.0 is "description as message body", which places readable description text after the key/value pairs.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:45 AM Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > I hope everyone has had a good break. :-) > > I'd like to see PEP 566 move forwards. From the last thread, I think > people were mostly happy with it as stands, but there were some proposals > to introduce further metadata changes. I'd suggest that we finalise the PEP > as it currently stands, and save up other changes for a future metadata > revision. > > One change I would like to the current text is to make more explicit that > the format of several fields allowing version specifiers (Requires-Dist, > Provides-Dist, Obsoletes-Dist, Requires-External) has changed, as PEP 508 > removes the need for parentheses around the version specifier. > > The section on version specifiers currently refers to PEP 440, which > doesn't mention the parentheses at all, and says they are otherwise > unchanged from PEP 345, which says parentheses are required. I would like > to add some text to that section, such as: > > "Following PEP 508, version specifiers no longer need to be surrounded by > parentheses in the fields Requires-Dist, Provides-Dist, Obsoletes-Dist or > Requires-External, so e.g. `requests >= 2.8.1` is now a valid value. The > recommended format is without parentheses, but tools parsing metadata > should also be able to handle version specifiers in parentheses." > > Thanks, > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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