On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
> > but my question was what are you adding, if anything, > > that warranted it having "Metadata-Version: 2.0"? > > I believe that the fields 'Private-Version', 'Obsoleted-By', > 'Setup-Requires-Dist', > 'Extension' and 'Provides-Extra' were added on top of the 1.2 metadata in > an > early version of PEP 426, before the move to JSON. > from a quick scan of the wheel code, I only see "Provides-Extra" as something additional to 1.2 Setuptools additionally acquired logic for "Provides-Extra" in "DistInfoDistribution" afaik, "Provides-Extra" is not literally in PEP426, so it has no PEP home? but it's implemented? it sounds like we need some version to capture this change?, or just consider it a mess, and leave at that.
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