On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:05, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Right now Distutils will let you add the name of the maintainer and > the name of the author as two distinct metadata in your package. > > When creating the PKG-INFO, Distutils includes an "Author" line. > > To build it, it will look at first for at the maintainer metadata and > use it if provided, then only at the author metadata. > > This is not a correct behavior; > > Two points: > > 1/ Distutils should not use the maintainer metadata to create the > *Author* line in the PKG-INFO > 2/ We could add the extra "Maintainer" field in PKG-INFO, > > I am all for 1/, but I am not sure for 2/. I never use the > Maintainer field my self. > > Any opinions ?
Who is the maintainer is more important than who is the author. +1 on adding a Maintainer field in PKG_INFO. -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
