[Distutils] PEP 566 - metadata 1.3 changes

[Joni Orponen]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:58 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 January 2018 at 10:22, Dustin Ingram <di at di.codes> wrote:
> >> Metadata 1.3 vs Metadata 2.0
> >
> > I agree with Nick here that since this version is backwards-compatible,
> that it
> > should remain Metadata 1.3.
> >
> > In addition, I think we should avoid overloading the already-in-use "2.0"
> > version as possibly being either a "PEP 566 flavor 2.0" or a "PEP 426
> flavor
> > 2.0".
>
> Nathaniel raised a good point, which is that client tools have already
> been accepting "bdist_wheel-flavoured metadata 2.0" for years, so we
> can be confident no client tools are actually rejecting metadata
> versions that start with "2.x".
>
> Given that, I think it would be reasonable to finally Withdraw PEP 426
> (rather than continuing to defer it), and have PEP 566 define metadata
> version 2.1, so that it's unambiguously the latest metadata version.
>

Jump straight to 3.0 to clear out any confusion and/or ambiguity on the
next backwards-incompatible one?

-- 
Joni Orponen
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