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[Python-Dev] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 19:45:00 CET 2013 
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:11:23 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Major changes since the last draft:
>
> 1. Metadata-Version is 2.0 rather than 1.3, and the field now has the
> same major.minor semantics as are defined for wheel versions in PEP
> 427 (i.e. if a tool sees a major version number it doesn't recognise,
> it should give up rather than trying to guess what to do with it,
> while it's OK to process a higher minor version)

So is it possible to bundle several versioned metadata files in order
to maximize compatibility? Or does a distribution with 2.0 metadata
have to abandon all hope of being compatible with all tools?

Regards

Antoine.

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Not likely to matter for a while as the current md v1 tools don't
understand this new obsolescence rule :-)
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