Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > What about having a "Contact-email" then that would replace the > "Author-email" field, and an "Author" multi-valued field as described > previously.
Why do we have to add new fields and deprecate others? Just for the sake of confusing users and breaking existing packages? What do we gain exactly? There are enough fields available to make the writing of a setup.py burdensome... If you have several authors, you can separate them with commas in the author field and even include e-mail addresses if you want (e.g. "Tarek Ziadé <ta...@example.com>, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@example.net>"). Not every wish for a new "feature" should be satisfied, IMO. Besides, making metadata complex and version-dependent is the best way to make it useless. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6992> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
