v0.0.8

0.0.8 - 2021-08-03

Changed

• Since WheelFile write methods now have skipdir=True default (see below),
  writing recursively from a directory will no longer produce entries for
  directories. This also means, that attempting to write an empty directory (or
  any directory, even with recursive=False) is no longer possible, unless
  skipdir=False is specified.

  This does not apply to writestr_* methods - attempting to write to an
  arcname ending in / will produce an entry that is visible as a
  directory.

• WheelFile.validate will now fail and raise ValueError if WHEEL build
  tag field (.wheeldata.build) contains a value that is different from the
  wheel name (.build_tag).

Added

• WheelFile.from_wheelfile - a constructor class-method that makes it
  possible to recreate a wheel and: rename it (change distname, version,
  buildnumber and/or tags), append files to it, change its metadata, etc.
• WheelFile.METADATA_FILENAMES - a static field with a set of names of
  metadata files managed by this class.
• WheelFile.writestr_distinfo - similar to write_distinfo, this is a safe
  shortcut for writing into .dist-info directory.
• WheelFile.__init__ now takes configuration arguments known from ZipFile:
  compression, compression, allowZip64, and strict_timestamps. They
  work the same way, except that they are keyword only in WheelFile, and the
  default value for compression is zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED.
• WheelFile write methods now take optional compress_type and
  compresslevel arguments known from ZipFile.
• New skipdir argument in WheelFile write methods: write, write_data,
  and write_distinfo. When True (which is the default), these methods will
  not write ZIP entries for directories into the archive.

Fixed

• Docstring of the WheelFile.filename property, which was innacurate.
• MetaData.from_str will now correctly unpack Keywords field into a list of
  strings, instead of a one-element list with a string containing
  comma-separated tags.