hi @CAM-Gerlach

This package.ini file is a pain to maintain.

This file does exist because:

• pip wheel didn't exist at the start of the project,
• WinPython wanted to simplify the package management,
• and so the WPPM does still exist.

Now that pypi and wheel do exist also, I'm looking rather to suppress manual maintenance of this file:

• use pypi "short description" of the project (the first line, if more than one),
• links to official webpage are to find on pypi page of the project,
• having it done per a script, during build time.

Okay, thanks. So will an automatic update via PyPI happen very soon, then? Unfortunately our PyPI page also has a number of errors and out of date elements as well, including not having a link to our new site, our current full project name (with proper capitalization), nor an up to date or well-written description. I'll need to fix that in our setup.py and hopefull it will go out with Spyder 3.3.1 in the next few days.

I updated everything in setup.py for PyPI and that went in as spyder-ide/spyder#7582 , so as Soon™ as 3.3.1 gets pushed to PyPI everything will be updated there. Therefore, the relevance of this PR depends on how soon you're going to implement the described procedure of retrieving this information from PyPI. If it is (or seems likely it will be) after the later of the next Spyder and next WinPython releases, then I would urge you to accept this PR so WinPython doesn't continue to ship with a very outdated long-name, links and description for Spyder and its related packages. Thanks!

Thanks @stonebig ; closed in preference to #655 and #656 .