[issue33388] Support PEP 566 metadata in dist.py

Nick Coghlan added the comment: If these warnings are being emitted when using setuptools, that's a bug in setuptools (as it should be ensuring these are handled without warnings), and can be reported over on https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/ If these warnings are being emitted when using p

[issue33388] Support PEP 566 metadata in dist.py

Éric Araujo added the comment: In the early days, I think distutils was updated to support new metadata PEPs, and then it stopped. Now we have an ecosystem of tools that know how to work with metadata files created by distutils or setuptools; I worry that changing distutils could break them.

[issue33388] Support PEP 566 metadata in dist.py

Change by Robert Bricheno : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6339 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue33388] Support PEP 566 metadata in dist.py

New submission from Robert Bricheno : PEP 566 added the metadata fields 'Description-Content-Type' and 'Provides-Extra': https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0566/ http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#metadata Currently dist.py in CPython distutils will warn if they are se