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[Python-Dev] accept the wheel PEPs 425, 426, 427

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Sun Oct 21 17:46:12 CEST 2012 
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:14:03 -0400, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Well, if you did want to maintain extensibility, you could go whole
hog and allow MIME types and Content-Type: mulitpart/mixed :)

--David
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