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Tarek Ziadé wrote:

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com wrote:

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Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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That's why I said that 100% of the information could stay in PKG-INFO (==the metadata), instead of having to maintain something else at PyPI.

Apoligies for misunderstanding: I thought you were arguing to remove the field from PKG-INFO. I'm fine with removing any mandate for a registry from the PEP.

That's fine, probably related to my frenglish too.

There's one thing though: do we want the url and description data with the name ?

I would say we don't need anything. This field is like the "data type" stuff (not yet in a PEP): we want the downstream folks from Fedora / Debian to suggest values to the upstream (PyPI) package maintainer. I think we can get "enough" traction from just having a well-understood name ('zlib', 'libxslt', etc.) in this field.

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