[Python-Dev] Edits to Metadata 1.2 to add extras (optional dependencies)

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about
>
> Extensions are fields that start with a pypi-registered name followed
> by a hyphen. A file that contains extension fields declares them with
> Extension: name :
>
> Extension: pypiname
> pypiname-Field: value

The repetition seems rather annoying. Compare the two section based
variants I just posted to:

    Extension: wheel
    wheel-Version: 0.9
    wheel-Packager: bdist_wheel-0.1
    wheel-Root-Is-Purelib: true

It does have the advantage that tools for manipulating the format can
remain dumber, but that doesn't seem like *that* much of an advantage,
especially since any such benefit could be eliminated completely by
just switching to a completely standard ConfigParser format by putting
the PEP defined settings into a [python] section.

Cheers,
Nick.

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