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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 20 June 2013 23:36, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The only major remaining open item is the addition of guidelines in
>> Appendix A for converting legacy metadata to metadata 2.0. I consider
>> the rest of the spec stable at this point, unless anyone picks up on a
>> glaring hole in the latest draft that Daniel, Donald and I missed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>
> FYI the tip revision of wheel (bdist_wheel,
> https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/) produces pymeta.json that is
> almost up-to-date with this version of the spec, except that it still
> inlines the description rather than saving it to a separate file.
> bdist_wheel has always worked by converting setuptools metadata to PEP
> metadata.

Yeah, pointing at the relevant code in the wheel implementation as one
approach that is known to work reasonably well may be the most
expedient way of handling that.

Cheers,
Nick.

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