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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 01:11:26 CEST 2012


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:27 PM, 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.

That level of extensibility mainly shows up with the extra metadata files in the .dist-info directory (so it's part of the wheel and installation database formats, but not a concern for the main metadata file).

An in-memory metadata interchange format would need to deal with it, but such a format can also use properly structured datatypes.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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