[Python-checkins] peps: lower wheel spec version

[daniel.holth]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/e5f21965677e
changeset:   4551:e5f21965677e
user:        Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm>
date:        Wed Oct 10 19:23:03 2012 -0400
summary:
  lower wheel spec version

files:
  pep-0427.txt |  19 +++++++++++++++----
  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0427.txt b/pep-0427.txt
--- a/pep-0427.txt
+++ b/pep-0427.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PEP: 427
-Title: The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0
+Title: The Wheel Binary Package Format 0.1
 Version: $Revision$
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm>
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@
 final paths at any later time.
 
 
+Note
+====
+
+This draft PEP describes version 0.1 of the "wheel" format. When the PEP
+is accepted, the version will be changed to 1.0.  (The major version
+is used to indicate potentially backwards-incompatible changes to the
+format.)
+
+
 Rationale
 =========
 
@@ -49,7 +58,9 @@
 Installing a wheel 'distribution-1.0.py32.none.any.whl'
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
-#. Unpack.
+Wheel installation notionally consists of two phases:
+
+- Unpack.
 
   a. Parse ``distribution-1.0.dist-info/WHEEL``.
   b. Check that installer is compatible with Wheel-Version.  Warn if
@@ -58,7 +69,7 @@
      (site-packages).
   d. Else unpack archive into platlib (site-packages).
 
-#. Spread.
+- Spread.
 
   a. Unpacked archive includes ``distribution-1.0.dist-info/`` and (if
      there is data) ``distribution-1.0.data/``.
@@ -125,7 +136,7 @@
 #. Wheel files contain metadata about the wheel format itself in
    ``{distribution}-{version}.dist-info/WHEEL``::
 
-       Wheel-Version: 1.0
+       Wheel-Version: 0.1
        Generator: bdist_wheel 0.7
        Root-Is-Purelib: true
 

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