[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:37 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 17.02.2013 11:11, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I'm not against modernizing the format, but given that version 1.2
> has been out for around 8 years now, without much following,
> I think we need to make the implementation bit a requirement
> before accepting the PEP.

It is being implemented in distlib, and the (short!) appendix to the
PEP itself shows how to read the format using the standard library's
email module.

v2.0 is designed to fix many of the issues that prevented the adoption
of v1.2, including tweaks to the standardised version scheme and the
addition of a formal extension mechanism to avoid the ad hoc
extensions that occurred with earlier metadata versions.

Cheers,
Nick.

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