[Distutils] RFC: PEP 566 - Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.3

[Daniel Holth]

I don't know why the parentheses were included in the older pep. They are
widely deployed. We probably can get rid of them or make them optional in a
practical parser.

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017, 02:03 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 December 2017 at 02:42, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> > Dustin asked me to bring this issue to this thread:
> >
> > Metadata version 1.2 (PEP 345) says that version specifiers within a
> > Requires-Dist field should go in parentheses: "zope.interface (>3.5.0)".
> > The metadata spec on PyPUG repeats this.
> >
> > However, PEP 508 says that the parentheses are not needed, and tools
> > writing dependency specifications should not create them. Its
> > recommended format is therefore "zope.interface >3.5.0".
> >
> > Should the metadata 1.3 PEP note that this has changed? Or do we only
> > need to update the metadata spec on PyPUG?
>
> The new PEP already delegates to PEP 508 for the version specifier
> format, so I think that can just be updated in PyPUG.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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