On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:14:03 -0400, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> > wrote: > > Daniel Holth writes: > > > > > Another solution comes to mind. Put the description in the payload. > > > > That would work for me, but it would cause extensibility problems if > > anybody later found a use for other formatted fields. I have no > > intuition for that. > > It's OK to limit the extensibility of this format. IIUC pypi usually > gets the metadata as a pre-parsed dict anyway, and the installer / > runtime does not need formatted fields at all (only parsing the name, > version, requirements to do dependency resolution).
Well, if you did want to maintain extensibility, you could go whole hog and allow MIME types and Content-Type: mulitpart/mixed :) --David _______________________________________________ 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
