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). _______________________________________________ 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
