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

2013-02-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:54:21 -0500, Fred Drake a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Donald Stufft > wrote: > > Let's not add anything to the stdlib till it has real world usage. > > Doing otherwise is putting the cart before the horse. > > I'd posit that anything successful will no longe

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

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2013 08:36, "Fred Drake" wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> > As Daniel pointed out, easy_install and pip also don't follow this rule >> > yet, >> > so it won't really have any impact if we never

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

2013-02-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 Feb 2013 08:36, "Fred Drake" wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > As Daniel pointed out, easy_install and pip also don't follow this rule yet, > > so it won't really have any impact if we never get to metadata 3.0. > > Actually, my point was that using a separ

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

2013-02-17 Thread Fred Drake
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > As Daniel pointed out, easy_install and pip also don't follow this rule yet, > so it won't really have any impact if we never get to metadata 3.0. Actually, my point was that using a separate filename for version 2.0 would allow provision of

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

2013-02-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 18 Feb 2013 04:54, "Fred Drake" wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > > Not likely to matter for a while as the current md v1 tools don't understand > > this new obsolescence rule :-) > > Using a separate file for post-obsolescence-rule metadata versions would > all

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

2013-02-17 Thread Fred Drake
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > Not likely to matter for a while as the current md v1 tools don't understand > this new obsolescence rule :-) Using a separate file for post-obsolescence-rule metadata versions would allow coexistance, which would likely improve adoption.

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

2013-02-17 Thread Daniel Holth
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:11:23 +1000 Nick Coghlan 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'

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

2013-02-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:11:23 +1000 Nick Coghlan 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 does