[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2 (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 11:21:30 CET 2009

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote: [..]

if a "1.2" field is found and no "1.1" field is found:  metadata 1.2 is used if a "1.1" field is found and no "1.2" field is found:  metadata 1.1 is used + a warning is displayed if a "1.1" field is found and a "1.2" field is found:  a warning is displayed and 1.2 is used, 1.1 fields are ignored if no 1.1 field or 1.2 fields are found:  metadata 1.2 is used

That would be internal to Distutils btw. tools should consume PKG-INFO using the DistributionMetadata reader, looking for the various attributes.

"requires", etc. would be kept, most of the time set to "None", then removed at the next Python version.

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