Re: [Distutils] RFC822, PKG-INFO and the Description field

2009-12-07 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:22:32PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt > wrote: > [..] > > > > How about turning that file into a real mime message instead of just a > > set of pseudo mime headers with some pseudo encodings for multiline > > stuff. > > >

Re: [Distutils] RFC822, PKG-INFO and the Description field

2009-12-06 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote: [..] > > How about turning that file into a real mime message instead of just a > set of pseudo mime headers with some pseudo encodings for multiline > stuff. > > That way the long description could be the body of that message, > no more me

Re: [Distutils] RFC822, PKG-INFO and the Description field

2009-12-06 Thread Ronny Pfannschmidt
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 03:49 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently fixing a bug in Distutils: http://bugs.python.org/issue1923 > > this bugs makes a Description field like: > > """ > Text:: >a literal python block:: >>>> import this > """ > > Transformed into : > >

[Distutils] RFC822, PKG-INFO and the Description field

2009-12-04 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hi, I am currently fixing a bug in Distutils: http://bugs.python.org/issue1923 this bugs makes a Description field like: """ Text:: a literal python block:: >>> import this """ Transformed into : """ Text:: a literal python block:: >>> import this """ Which is fine for RFC822 co