> On Dec 19, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronh...@nextday.fi> wrote:
>
> Couldn't Warehouse validate the description, and reject the upload (with an
> appropriate message) if it doesn't pass? This at least would eliminate those
> ugly project pages that failed to render...there are a lot of them on PyPI.
I forgot to mention that!
So currently the answer is No, because some projects are legitimately not
attempting to use rst descriptions and we have no way to know if a project
wants a rst description or a plaintext description besides just attempting to
render it (which unfortunately also means that projects who want plaintext but
which accidentally have something that is valid rst will get rst forced on
them).
However! There is a desire to enable Markdown support for PyPI, and as part of
that a new metadata field is being added that just indicates what format the
description is in (rst, markdown, or plaintext is the supported ones once that
field gets added). Once we get that field added and plumbed through, then we’ll
have a mechanism by which we can determine if the field is supposed to render
correctly, and the plan is to start rejecting uploads that include that field
(the behavior if that field isn’t included would be the current behavior) where
the description does not correctly render with the selected technology.
So effectively, not right now, but at some point yes, but it’ll be opt-in by
adding a new bit of metadata to your project.
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