On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: [..] > If something more like that was added (more like Trunk-URL), that would be > genuinely useful. Barring that, I'd recommend removing the Repository-URL > field from the recommendation until we have a clearer use case. Right now, > the better use case would be a field giving the checkout command, e.g.,: > Repository-Checkout: hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ianb/webob > But I don't think that is particularly useful, only that it is more useful > than Repository-URL.
Here's a proposal then, that seems to synthetize what people have been saying: Let's drop "Repository-Browse-URL" and keep a single "Repository-URL" field, which is a free URL that can take any URL form. e.g. a browsable url, or a git/hg url etc. Now for "Change-Log" vs "Change-Log-URL", I think the first one is better, because that's what people are already doing in their packages (when they add their changelog at the end of their long_description option), and it's not hard for PyPI to store it and display it, besides Description. The value I see in that field is that: - it helps developers structurize a bit their project description. e.g. letting them separate the Description of the package from the changelog if any. - it will let PyPI separate the front page of the project from its changelog, e.g. in this page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout, instead of having the changelog here, it could be a link to another page for the project. How does that sounds ? Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
