Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-23 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Maintainer (optional) - A string containing the maintainer's name at a minimum; additional contact information may be provided. Note that this field is intended for use when a project is being

Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-23 Thread Daniel Holth
Makes sense. Even 1.2 has maintainer. It probably wouldn't be too intrusive to spit out a few more fields in distutils. I don't know about pypi which usually gets metadata as a dictionary. On Feb 23, 2013 10:51 PM, Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM,

Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-23 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote: Makes sense. Even 1.2 has maintainer. It probably wouldn't be too intrusive to spit out a few more fields in distutils. I don't know about pypi which usually gets metadata as a dictionary. This issue in PyPI's bug tracker

Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Philippe Ombredanne pombreda...@nexb.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ This is looking great! License (optional) --

Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-17 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ This is looking great! License (optional) -- [...] The full text of the license would normally be included in a separate file.

Re: [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-17 Thread Daniel Holth
The Wheel implementation tries to put the license in LICENSE.txt inside .dist-info. I didn't feel the need to mention it in metadata. Metadata parsing is extremely unimportant in prior versions of the spec. Correct me if a significant tool actually needs the file at all in v1.1, except for