[Distutils] Draft PEP for JSON based metadata published

[holger krekel]

Hi Nick,

I am actually missing a "goals" section in this PEP.  Who can/should use
the PEP's new formats and definitions?  Is it meant to fit well for
python2.6, PyPy, Jython, etc?  Also, what the intention/roadmap for
adoption, how can existing and new tools deald with or distinguish
old-style and PEP426 packaging semantics?  I think such "process" aspects 
would provide very valuable context for the many players in the field.

best,

holger

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 21:36 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> After preliminary reviews by Donald and Daniel, I have now pushed the
> first complete draft of the JSON-based metadata 2.0 proposal to
> python.org
> 
> PEP 426 (metadata 2.0): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/
> PEP 440 (versioning): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
> 
> With the rationale and commentary, they're over 3000 lines between
> them, so I'm not attaching them here.
> 
> The rationale for many of the changes is at the end of each PEP, along
> with some comments on features that I have either rejected or
> deliberately chosen to defer to the next revision of the metadata (at
> the earliest).
> 
> Those with BitBucket accounts may also comment inline on the drafts here:
> 
> PEP 426: https://bitbucket.org/ncoghlan/misc/src/05d3586464b10d6a04a35409468269d7c89a87ba/pep_drafts/pep-0426.txt?at=default
> PEP 440: https://bitbucket.org/ncoghlan/misc/src/05d3586464b10d6a04a35409468269d7c89a87ba/pep_drafts/pep-0440.txt?at=default
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
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