[Python-Dev] Edits to Metadata 1.2 to add extras (optional dependencies)

Tue Aug 28 15:09:20 CEST 2012

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about
>> Extensions are fields that start with a pypi-registered name followed
> by a hyphen. A file that contains extension fields declares them with
> Extension: name :
>> Extension: pypiname
> pypiname-Field: value

The repetition seems rather annoying. Compare the two section based
variants I just posted to:
 Extension: wheel
 wheel-Version: 0.9
 wheel-Packager: bdist_wheel-0.1
 wheel-Root-Is-Purelib: true
It does have the advantage that tools for manipulating the format can
remain dumber, but that doesn't seem like *that* much of an advantage,
especially since any such benefit could be eliminated completely by
just switching to a completely standard ConfigParser format by putting
the PEP defined settings into a [python] section.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia