On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the cost you are seeing in having new additional fields ?
The cognitive load of package authors having to read, understand, and then provide or ignore the metadata. There is also the cost to implementors of PyPI replacements/mirrors/other tools. > Existing projects can leave everything in their long_description if > they want, nothing is lost. Nothing we currently have is lost, however we put a small damper on future gains. -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
