Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Right, but then we have: > > author > author_email > authors > maintainer > maintainer_email > > for consitency, we'd also need: > > author_emails > maintainers > maintainer_emails
In my mind the "perfect" situation would be just two arguments: - authors (goes in Author field - possibly multi-valued) - contact_email (goes in Contact-email field) And deprecate the others. The "maintainer" concept is not on the metadata side, so it's not used at *all* by the third-party tools or by PyPI. Adding it in the metadata adds more confusion imho than deprecate its usage on Distutils side to stick with a very simple concept: - a distribution has authors - a distribution has a contact email. So I am -1 adding Maintainer/Maintainer-email in the Metadata. Now for the "Contact-email", it guess it's OK to keep "author_email -> Author-email", and it's no big deal is "Author" stays singled valued, as long as it contains all authors names right ? So at the end, the changes on distutils setup() side would be: - authors (goes in Author field - with "," separations ) - contact_email (goes in Author-email field) - deprecation of the "author", "author_email", "maintainer" and "mainainer_email" arguments So the metadata doesn't change and we have what we want. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
