On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> How about >> >> Extensions are fields that start with a pypi-registered name followed >> by a hyphen. A file that contains extension fields declares them with >> Extension: name : >> >> Extension: pypiname >> pypiname-Field: value > > The repetition seems rather annoying. Compare the two section based > variants I just posted to: > > Extension: wheel > wheel-Version: 0.9 > wheel-Packager: bdist_wheel-0.1 > wheel-Root-Is-Purelib: true > > It does have the advantage that tools for manipulating the format can > remain dumber, but that doesn't seem like *that* much of an advantage, > especially since any such benefit could be eliminated completely by > just switching to a completely standard ConfigParser format by putting > the PEP defined settings into a [python] section.
Wheel is a little different because once it's installed it is no longer a wheel, but it makes a decent example. That's not even repetition, it's just longer tag names. Repetition is having one Classifier: line for every trove classifier. It would be quite inconvenient to change the parser for PKG-INFO. It's a win to keep the file flat. _______________________________________________ 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
