[Python-Dev] Relying on ReST in the core?

[Andrew Kuchling]

For PEP 314, it's been suggested that the Description field 
be written in RestructuredText.  This change doesn't affect the
Distutils code, because the Distutils just takes this field and 
copies it into an output file; programs using the metadata defined 
in PEP 314 would have to be able to process ReST, though.

I know the plan is to eventually add ReST/docutils to the standard
library, and that this isn't happening for Python 2.3.  Question: is
it OK to make something in the core implicitly depend on ReST before
ReST is in the core?  Until docutils is added, there's always the risk
that we decide to never add ReST to the core, or ReST 2.0 changes the
format completely, or we decide XYZ is much better, or something like
that.

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