[ZODB-Dev] ZODB 3.3 beta 1 released

[Tim Peters]

[Fred Drake]
>> The PKG-INFO is generated by distutils; if you run "setup.py sdist", the
>> resulting distribution will contain PKG-INFO.

[Jeremy Hylton]
> It's helpful to have around in distributions, because it contains a nice
> chunk of metadata in a human readable form.

Here's the PKG-INFO "setup.py sdist" generates from the 3.3b1 tarball
release; it doesn't look particularly helpful to me, even if the info it
contained were entirely correct:

"""
Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: ZODB3
Version: 3.3.0b1
Summary: Zope Object Database: object database and persistence
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: ZODB Developers
Author-email: zodb-dev at zope.org
License: ZPL 2
Description: 
        The Zope Object Database provides an object-oriented database
        for Python that provides a high-degree of transparency.
        Applications can take advantage of object database features
        with few, if any, changes to application logic.  ZODB includes
        features such as a plugable storage interface, rich
        transaction support, and undo.
Platform: Linux
Platform: Unix
Platform: Windows
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Zope Public License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Database
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: Unix
"""

I'm not sure where this is coming from now.  The PKG-INFO for 3.3a3 was
better (it had appropriate Home-page and Download-URL entries, a URL for the
license, and said "Platform: any" instead of listing 3 platforms; "ZPL 2" is
incorrect for the license -- it's ZPL 2.1 now ... Fred, where *is* this
stuff coming from?).