14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
6:10 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Donald Stufft
On Friday, September 14, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
Description: is the only multi-line field in the metadata. It is almost never needed at runtime. It would be great for performance and simplify the parser to just put it in another file.
License also can be multiline I believe,
OK. In practice, Description: is the only field that is likely to be hundreds of lines long which seems wasteful. The parser complexity is a non-issue. (I know the PEP says Description: should not be the instruction manual, but it is wrong because that is the way to get useful data up on a package's pypi page.)