Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Tarek Ziadé wrote: > 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.
-1 on that idea :-) The meta-data is only used by PyPI and perhaps a handful of other tools. The setup() keyword parameters OTOH are used by most packages out there, so any change to these has to be carefully planned. Overall, I find the presented use case not really relevant enough to warrant such a huge change. Even less so, since there is a solution that works today without any changes. The addition of the maintainer meta-data field would not hurt anyone and create more consistency. The rest is just documenting best practices. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
