On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com (mailto:dholth@gmail.com)> wrote:
How about
Extensions are fields that start with a pypi-registered name followed by a hyphen. A file that contains extension fields declares them with Extension: name :
Extension: pypiname pypiname-Field: value
The repetition seems rather annoying. Compare the two section based variants I just posted to:
Extension: wheel wheel-Version: 0.9 wheel-Packager: bdist_wheel-0.1 wheel-Root-Is-Purelib: true
It does have the advantage that tools for manipulating the format can remain dumber, but that doesn't seem like *that* much of an advantage, especially since any such benefit could be eliminated completely by just switching to a completely standard ConfigParser format by putting the PEP defined settings into a [python] section.
METADATA files are not ini files.