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PEP: 241
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Title: Metadata for Python Software Packages
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: A.M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
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Type: Standards Track
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Created: 12-Mar-2001
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Status: Final
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Post-History: 19-Mar-2001
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Introduction
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This PEP describes a mechanism for adding metadata to Python
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packages. It includes specifics of the field names, and their
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semantics and usage.
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Including Metadata in Packages
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The Distutils 'sdist' command will be modified to extract the
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metadata fields from the arguments and write them to a file in the
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generated zipfile or tarball. This file will be named PKG-INFO
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and will be placed in the top directory of the source
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distribution (where the README, INSTALL, and other files usually
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go).
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Developers may not provide their own PKG-INFO file. The "sdist"
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command will, if it detects an existing PKG-INFO file, terminate
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with an appropriate error message. This should prevent confusion
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caused by the PKG-INFO and setup.py files being out of sync.
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The PKG-INFO file format is a single set of RFC-822 headers
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parseable by the rfc822.py module. The field names listed in the
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following section are used as the header names. There's no
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extension mechanism in this simple format; the Catalog and Distutils
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SIGs will aim at getting a more flexible format ready for Python 2.2.
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Fields
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This section specifies the names and semantics of each of the
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supported metadata fields.
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Fields marked with "(Multiple use)" may be specified multiple
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times in a single PKG-INFO file. Other fields may only occur
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once in a PKG-INFO file. Fields marked with "(optional)" are
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not required to appear in a valid PKG-INFO file, all other
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fields must be present.
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Metadata-Version
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Version of the file format; currently "1.0" is the only
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legal value here.
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Example:
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Metadata-Version: 1.0
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Name
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The name of the package.
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Example:
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Name: BeagleVote
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Version
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A string containing the package's version number. This
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field should be parseable by one of the Version classes
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(StrictVersion or LooseVersion) in the distutils.version
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module.
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Example:
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Version: 1.0a2
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Platform (multiple use)
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A comma-separated list of platform specifications, summarizing
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the operating systems supported by the package. The major
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supported platforms are listed below, but this list is
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necessarily incomplete.
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POSIX, MacOS, Windows, BeOS, PalmOS.
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Binary distributions will use the Supported-Platform field in
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their metadata to specify the OS and CPU for which the binary
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package was compiled. The semantics of the Supported-Platform
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are not specified in this PEP.
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Example:
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Platform: POSIX, Windows
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Summary
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A one-line summary of what the package does.
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Example:
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Summary: A module for collecting votes from beagles.
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Description (optional)
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A longer description of the package that can run to several
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paragraphs. (Software that deals with metadata should not
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assume any maximum size for this field, though one hopes that
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people won't include their instruction manual as the
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long-description.)
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Example:
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Description: This module collects votes from beagles
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in order to determine their electoral wishes.
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Do NOT try to use this module with basset hounds;
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it makes them grumpy.
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Keywords (optional)
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A list of additional keywords to be used to assist searching
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for the package in a larger catalog.
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Example:
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Keywords: dog puppy voting election
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Home-page (optional)
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A string containing the URL for the package's home page.
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Example:
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Home-page: http://www.example.com/~cschultz/bvote/
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Author (optional)
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A string containing at a minimum the author's name. Contact
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information can also be added, separating each line with
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newlines.
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Example:
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Author: C. Schultz
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Universal Features Syndicate
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Los Angeles, CA
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Author-email
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A string containing the author's e-mail address. It can contain
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a name and e-mail address in the legal forms for a RFC-822
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'From:' header. It's not optional because cataloging systems
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can use the e-mail portion of this field as a unique key
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representing the author. A catalog might provide authors the
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ability to store their GPG key, personal home page, and other
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additional metadata *about the author*, and optionally the
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ability to associate several e-mail addresses with the same
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person. Author-related metadata fields are not covered by this
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PEP.
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Example:
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Author-email: "C. Schultz" <cschultz@example.com>
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License
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A string selected from a short list of choices, specifying the
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license covering the package. Some licenses result in the
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software being freely redistributable, so packagers and
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resellers can automatically know that they're free to
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redistribute the software. Other licenses will require
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a careful reading by a human to determine how the software can be
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repackaged and resold.
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The choices are:
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Artistic, BSD, DFSG, GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, "MIT",
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Mozilla PL, "public domain", Python, Qt PL, Zope PL, unknown,
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nocommercial, nosell, nosource, shareware, other
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Definitions of some of the licenses are:
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DFSG The license conforms to the Debian Free Software
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Guidelines, but does not use one of the other
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DFSG conforming licenses listed here.
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More information is available at:
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http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
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Python Python 1.6 or higher license. Version 1.5.2 and
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earlier are under the MIT license.
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public domain Software is public domain, not copyrighted.
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unknown Status is not known
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nocommercial Free private use but commercial use not permitted
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nosell Free use but distribution for profit by arrangement
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nosource Freely distributable but no source code
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shareware Payment is requested if software is used
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other General category for other non-DFSG licenses
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Some of these licenses can be interpreted to mean the software is
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freely redistributable. The list of redistributable licenses is:
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Artistic, BSD, DFSG, GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, "MIT",
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Mozilla PL, "public domain", Python, Qt PL, Zope PL,
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nosource, shareware
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Note that being redistributable does not mean a package
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qualifies as free software, 'nosource' and 'shareware' being
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examples.
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Example:
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License: MIT
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Acknowledgements
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Many changes and rewrites to this document were suggested by the
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readers of the Distutils SIG. In particular, Sean Reifschneider
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often contributed actual text for inclusion in this PEP.
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The list of licenses was compiled using the SourceForge license
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list and the CTAN license list compiled by Graham Williams; Carey
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Evans also offered several useful suggestions on this list.
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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Local Variables:
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