[Python-Dev] accept the wheel PEPs 425, 426, 427 (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 15:14:03 CEST 2012

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Daniel Holth writes:

> Another solution comes to mind. Put the description in the payload. That would work for me, but it would cause extensibility problems if anybody later found a use for other formatted fields. I have no intuition for that.

It's OK to limit the extensibility of this format. IIUC pypi usually gets the metadata as a pre-parsed dict anyway, and the installer / runtime does not need formatted fields at all (only parsing the name, version, requirements to do dependency resolution).

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