On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:23:33PM -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:52:11 -0800, Tarek Ziadé > <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hello > >As suggested in Catalog-SIG by some people, I would like to propose > >the addition of three more fields for 1.2: > >"Repository-URL" > > A string containing the URL for the package's repository. > > Example: > > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/ > >"Repository-Browse-URL" > > A string containing the URL for the package's browsable repository. > > Example: > > http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk > >"Bug-Tracker-URL" > > A string containing the URL for the package's bug tracker > > Example: > > http://bugs.python.org/ > > What are the possible use-cases (by the tools) of these new fields > would be? I can imagine Repository-URL to be of use (eg: pip install > IPython==dev), but have no idea why the other two should be added.
Same as for Author and Author-email etc: more information for the (human) users. I think this is very valuable when browsing packages on e.g. PyPI. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
