On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: > Le 11/02/2013 13:37, Marcus Smith a écrit : > > > > Projects which wish to use non-compliant version identifiers must > > > > restrict themselves to metadata v1.1 > > > > > > > > > > > currently, "Projects" don't have control over this, right? > > setuptools/distutils just writes 1.0 or 1.1 metadata, period. > > > > Yep, but projects can control the version used by distutils and others > by deliberately not using fields new in a given metadata version. I.e. > if you don’t have requires nor requires-dist not project-url, you’ll get > metadata 1.0; if you use setup-requires-dist you get 1.3 (from a tool > that knows about it, of course).
I think the biggest point of contention here is how does a project that doesn't _need_ any of those new fields opt into the stricter version comparisons?
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