No, don't worry, this isn't about problems with EasyInstall. :) I just noticed that most of the package metadata has been moved to the bottom, below the long description. However, this makes it harder to tell at a glance who's responsible for the package, what license it has, etc., if the long description is more than a paragraph or two. Most of my packages include a slice of their release notes in the long description, usually bumping the total page size such that the other metadata no longer appears on the first screenful.
I don't think this is a good thing, as it seems to create an impression that the package's description is being provided by the Cheese Shop. That is, that the Cheese Shop is somehow *responsible* for the package. Putting the author, home page, and so on at the top previously provided a strong hint that the description was just part of a bunch of data supplied by the package author, and not an article or review being written by the maintainers of the CheeseShop itself. As you might guess from this, I think the change is bad and at least the metadata should be put back to the top, although I do not know what the original reason for making this change was. I don't think it makes a difference whether the files go at the top or the bottom, but the metadata *really* belongs up-top, and the description fields should probably be prefixed with something like "Package Description" to help hint that this is author-supplied info. _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
