On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Daniel Holth
That is my preference as well. The standard library basically ignores every metadata field or metadata file inside or outside of metadata currently, so where is the harm changing the official document to read "you may add new metadata fields to metadata" with an updated standard library that only ignores some of the metadata in metadata instead of all of it. The community is small enough to handle it.
I will campaign ardently against any such proposal. Any extension field must be clearly traceable to an authority that gets to define what it means to avoid a repeat of the setuptools debacle. Namespaces are a honkin' great idea, let's do more of those :P Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia