I am going to start a new PEP defining a new, more sane EGG-INFO directory format, and clarifying the need to make metadata that we can put in setup.py match with the ones in PKG-INFO file.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:05, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Right now Distutils will let you add the name of the maintainer and >> the name of the author as two distinct metadata in your package. >> >> When creating the PKG-INFO, Distutils includes an "Author" line. >> >> To build it, it will look at first for at the maintainer metadata and >> use it if provided, then only at the author metadata. >> >> This is not a correct behavior; >> >> Two points: >> >> 1/ Distutils should not use the maintainer metadata to create the >> *Author* line in the PKG-INFO >> 2/ We could add the extra "Maintainer" field in PKG-INFO, >> >> I am all for 1/, but I am not sure for 2/. I never use the >> Maintainer field my self. >> >> Any opinions ? > > Who is the maintainer is more important than who is the author. +1 on > adding a Maintainer field in PKG_INFO. > > -- > Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. > http://www.colliberty.com/ > +33 661 58 14 64 > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
