On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Keep in mind that this is the structured index metadata, which is only >> used to grab requirements (for end users, who usually don't need the >> other information at all) and used to generate cheese shop web pages. >> AUTHORS.txt works when you don't need an automatic "email the author" >> button. Or the project's github information etc. >> >> Someday the JSON version of the metadata will certainly make all these >> fields a little nicer to parse though. Maybe >> >> "authors" : [{'name':'bob', 'email':'b...@example.org'}] >> >> The author/maintainer distinction will stay. > > FWIW, the current draft of PEP 426 has this note: > > .. note: > > This section currently mimics the flat layout used in past metadata > versions. Perhaps it would be better to switch to a different format > closer to that used for the project URL field:: > > "contacts": { > "author": "\"C. Schultz\" <cschu...@example.com>" > "maintainer": "\"P. Patty\" <ppa...@example.com>" > } > > So yeah, I'm not particularly happy with the current structure for the > contact metadata either, but it's a *long* way down my priority list > of problems to address in the next draft. (My aim to get that posted > last week proved to be overly optimistic. Because this next update is > the key-value -> JSON-compatible structured metadata switch, it's hard > to post a partial update and still have it even vaguely readable) > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Looking at other languages they all seem to accept N number of "authors" or "contributors". Possibly something like that would be a good to do. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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