-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bicking wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Marc-André Lemburg gave me a key points about the static metadata >> discussions we have (wether its PEP 390 or around it) >> >> He said that the important thing was to have the context-dependant >> markers in PKG-INFO, and that having in described in >> setup.cfg or in setup.py by any way is not the important thing. And he >> is right ! > > Excellent, this resolves my own concern about the discussion as well. > Putting this in PKG-INFO is something I can concretely make use of, > regardless of how it is generated. > > PKG-INFO is already somewhat flawed as a format for holding the data, > in particularly maintaining indentation for Description. I think > adding a general "...; <condition>" places another syntactic > constraint, where no field can have ";" in it. Ideally I'd like to > see both cases resolved. And certainly I don't want to end up in a > place where weird bugs emerge if I put ";" in a field (especially > since many are free text).
The only fields where I see this syntax making any sense are the "requirements" ones: - - The ones specified in PEP 314: Requires, Provides, Obsoletes - - The new ones proposed in PEP 345[1]: Requires-Dist, Provides-Dist, Obsoletes-Dist [1] As amended here: http://svn.python.org/view/peps/branches/jim-update-345/pep-0345.txt?revision=73235&view=markup Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrYtiYACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5XhACeJ1XHIreqAU4IipKoa0UHH2dO ADQAnRddgnKzi6iWw5Nd9T9cCOnbFE5S =wsCj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig