[Distutils] Updated drafts of metadata 2.0 (PEP 426 and PEP 440)

[Daniel Holth]

Tip revision of bdist_wheel ( https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/ )
supports this revision of the spec, with the description in a separate
file. It also has better support for representing conditional
dependencies in the metadata.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 June 2013 15:52, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In the meantime, once sdist 2.0 is officially defined in a PEP, build
>> tools will be able to define their own metadata extensions to record
>> whatever they want in the sdist files. They'll also be free to add
>> arbitrary files to the dist-info directory and have them propagate
>> through the wheel files and all the way to the installation database.
>
>
> Ah, OK. I see how that would work now. Thanks for the clarification.
> Paul
>
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