On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:37 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: >> On 17.02.2013 11:11, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> I'm not against modernizing the format, but given that version 1.2 >> has been out for around 8 years now, without much following, >> I think we need to make the implementation bit a requirement >> before accepting the PEP. > > It is being implemented in distlib, and the (short!) appendix to the > PEP itself shows how to read the format using the standard library's > email module. Maybe this is already stated somewhere, but is there a plan for when distlib will be brought into the repository? Is there a reason not to do it now? It seems it would have more visibility that way (e.g. people could see it as part of the development version of the online docs and it would be in check-ins as are PEP edits), and its status relative to Python would be clearer. --Chris > > v2.0 is designed to fix many of the issues that prevented the adoption > of v1.2, including tweaks to the standardised version scheme and the > addition of a formal extension mechanism to avoid the ad hoc > extensions that occurred with earlier metadata versions. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/chris.jerdonek%40gmail.com
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