On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is my preference as well. The standard library basically ignores > every metadata field or metadata file inside or outside of metadata > currently, so where is the harm changing the official document to read > "you may add new metadata fields to metadata" with an updated standard > library that only ignores some of the metadata in metadata instead of > all of it. The community is small enough to handle it.
I will campaign ardently against any such proposal. Any extension field must be clearly traceable to an authority that gets to define what it means to avoid a repeat of the setuptools debacle. Namespaces are a honkin' great idea, let's do more of those :P Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
