On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote: > [..] If Tres is reading this, I had to do the following hack as > a workaroud: > from pkginfo import Distribution > > class PkgInfoFile(Distribution): > # Not all packages' PKG-INFO define the proper metadata > # For eg., modern-package-template uses the Classifiers field and > yet > # uses 1.0 as the metadata version (Classifiers is only defined in > 1.1) > metadata_version = '1.2' # not all PKG-INFO file have proper > metadata version
Why do you force 1.2 here ? There's no tool out there that understand PEP 345 / 1.2 yet. At this time, I'd encourage you to put 1.1 here unless you use PEP 345 fields. > Wasn't PEP 345 fully implemented for distutils1? Ah, I see that it is still > "Draft" mode. I'll switch it to Accepted now. But PEP 345 will not be implemented in Distutils, which is now feature frozen. > Can I use distutils2 to parse PKG-INFO (as a replacement for the `pkginfo` > project)? Yes you can. > Will it read all the fields despite the inaccurate > Metadata-Version field? Yes, it should work. Description fields (==long_description) containing empty lines will stay broken though, because they can't be read back. That's fixed in PEP 345 / 1.2 Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
