On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:58 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 January 2018 at 10:22, Dustin Ingram <di@di.codes> wrote: > >> Metadata 1.3 vs Metadata 2.0 > > > > I agree with Nick here that since this version is backwards-compatible, > that it > > should remain Metadata 1.3. > > > > In addition, I think we should avoid overloading the already-in-use "2.0" > > version as possibly being either a "PEP 566 flavor 2.0" or a "PEP 426 > flavor > > 2.0". > > Nathaniel raised a good point, which is that client tools have already > been accepting "bdist_wheel-flavoured metadata 2.0" for years, so we > can be confident no client tools are actually rejecting metadata > versions that start with "2.x". > > Given that, I think it would be reasonable to finally Withdraw PEP 426 > (rather than continuing to defer it), and have PEP 566 define metadata > version 2.1, so that it's unambiguously the latest metadata version. > Jump straight to 3.0 to clear out any confusion and/or ambiguity on the next backwards-incompatible one? -- Joni Orponen
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