This page describes the work done in order to change the Distutils Metadata.
PEP References :
PEP 241 Metadata 1.0 for Python Software Packages
PEP 314 Metadata 1.1 for Python Software Packages
PEP 345 Draft Metadata 1.2 for Python Software Packages
We are working on a new version for PEP 345. Jim started a branch (jim-update-345)
what has been said:
- deprecate Requires/Provides/OBsolete.
- add install_requires
- deprecate the MANIFEST.in template system in favor of a more powerfull pakage_data
- list all the arguments that are passed to vairous commands through setup.py that should land into the new metadata description
- see if we want to have a new "python version" metadata (it's a trove classifier right now)