get metadata from wheel files

[Holger Krekel]

It seems pkginfo doesn't look into ".whl" files. They are like zip files but have a METADATA file instead of a PKG-INFO one, and carry metadata version 2.0, see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/.

I am using pkginfo from "devpi", see http://doc.devpi.net . Thanks for caring!

[Holger Krekel (hpk)]

here is code that could be rather directly used with pkginfo (it extends pkingo) to support wheels:

https://github.com/dstufft/twine/blob/master/twine/wheel.py

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

I heard no response from Donald about landing wheel support from his 'twine' project in 'pkginfo'. Given that it derives from 'pkginfo.Distribution' already, borrowed code from it, and is distributed under a permissive license, I landed it today, with slight modifications.

 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk/revision/123
 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk/revision/124
 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk/revision/125

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

Fix released w/ 1.2b1:

 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo/1.2b1