Re: [Distutils] Package metadata: which fields are optional

Thanks. I've opened a PR for it: https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/pull/469 For now, I haven't listed 'Summary' as a required field, but I'm not 100% sure of this. Donald says PyPI doesn't check that it's there, but if all (or almost all) distributions have it anyway, maybe

Re: [Distutils] Package metadata: which fields are optional

On 15 April 2018 at 17:31, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > The core metadata specification > (https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/ ) notes whether > each field is optional. However there are some discrepancies with my > understanding: > > - Download-URL is

Re: [Distutils] Package metadata: which fields are optional

> On Apr 15, 2018, at 3:31 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > The core metadata specification > (https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/ ) notes whether > each field is optional. However there are some discrepancies with my > understanding: > > -

[Distutils] Package metadata: which fields are optional

The core metadata specification (https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/ ) notes whether each field is optional. However there are some discrepancies with my understanding: - Download-URL is not marked as optional, but in practice it's obsolete (since PEP 470) and not very