On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > So who's going to check how much long strings in json really cost?
I'm not sure how that's relevant, except for READMEs. Right now the long description is how you get a decent homepage for your project on PyPI; but there are no other use cases for that information being carried in the metadata file. A good-sized README can add 32K to what would otherwise be a 1K file, at least in the PKG-INFO format. Also, a README usually exists as a separate file to start with; do we really need to read that file and then embed it in another file, so that it doesn't have to be uploaded as a second attachment when posting to PyPI? Really, a README should be installed as documentation, not as part of the package metadata. I don't believe most packaging systems put that kind of info in metadata; it's typically a line or a paragraph or two at most, i.e. a description, not a web page. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
