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Change Requires-Dist format to not use parentheses #395
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This makes the METADATA file from bdist_wheel and the PKG-INFO file from setuptools render the same way (see pypa/setuptools#4336 for more info) Closes pypa#395
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This makes the METADATA file from bdist_wheel and the PKG-INFO file from setuptools render the same way (see pypa/setuptools#4336 for more info). Closes #395.
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According to the Requires-Dist section in the active Core Metadata specification:
wheel
currently generates the version with parentheses, which is acceptable but not recommended. The format triggers bugs in the parsing tool (pypa/packaging#336). It would be perfectly reasonable to not change this due to backwards compatibility, but I want to raise the possibility since the paranthesis requirement has been removed for quite a while and may no longer be relevant.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: