[Python-checkins] peps: pep-0426: add generator field

[daniel.holth]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/cc4da4be3838
changeset:   4979:cc4da4be3838
user:        Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm>
date:        Sat Jul 06 16:38:22 2013 -0400
summary:
  pep-0426: add generator field

files:
  pep-0426.txt                |  12 ++++++++++++
  pep-0426/pymeta-schema.json |   5 +++++
  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0426.txt b/pep-0426.txt
--- a/pep-0426.txt
+++ b/pep-0426.txt
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@
 fields:
 
 * ``metadata_version``
+* ``generator``
 * ``name``
 * ``version``
 * ``source_label``
@@ -502,6 +503,17 @@
     "metadata_version": "2.0"
 
 
+Generator
+---------
+
+Name (and optional version) of the program that generated the file,
+if any.  A manually produced file would omit this field.
+
+Example::
+
+    "generator": "setuptools (0.8)"
+
+
 Name
 ----
 
diff --git a/pep-0426/pymeta-schema.json b/pep-0426/pymeta-schema.json
--- a/pep-0426/pymeta-schema.json
+++ b/pep-0426/pymeta-schema.json
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^(\\d+(\\.\\d+)*)$"
     },
+    "generator": {
+      "description": "Name and version of the program that produced this file.",
+      "type": "string",
+      "pattern": "^[0-9A-Za-z]([0-9A-Za-z_.-]*[0-9A-Za-z])( \\((\\d+(\\.\\d+)*)((a|b|c|rc)(\\d+))?(\\.(post)(\\d+))?(\\.(dev)(\\d+))\\))?$"
+    },
     "name": {
       "description": "The name of the distribution.",
       "type": "string",

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