alt Hacker News> any package that conforms with the standards.
Right, but what I'm asking is: by and large, can you expect any random package on pypi to conform to the standard?
> any package that conforms with the standards.
Right, but what I'm asking is: by and large, can you expect any random package on pypi to conform to the standard?
Yeah, I think conformance is pretty good these days. PyPI itself enforces metadata well-formedness, and projects that don’t conform tend to get noticed quickly (because they don’t install correctly).