On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, September 14, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > > Description: is the only multi-line field in the metadata. It is > almost never needed at runtime. It would be great for performance and > simplify the parser to just put it in another file. > > License also can be multiline I believe,
OK. In practice, Description: is the only field that is likely to be hundreds of lines long which seems wasteful. The parser complexity is a non-issue. (I know the PEP says Description: should not be the instruction manual, but it is wrong because that is the way to get useful data up on a package's pypi page.) _______________________________________________ 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
