----- Original Message ----- From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> To: "Barry A. Warsaw" <barry@zope.com> Cc: <python-list@python.org>; <python-dev@python.org> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: [Python-Dev] Re: PEP 1, PEP Purpose and Guidelines
[Barry A. Warsaw]
It has been a while since I posted a copy of PEP 1 to the mailing lists and newsgroups.
Thanks for giving me this opportunity. There is a tiny detail that bothers me:
The format of the author entry should be address@dom.ain (Random J. User) if the email address is included, and just Random J. User if the address is not given.
This makes me jump fifteen years behind (or so, I do not remember times), at the time of the great push so the Internet prefers:
Random J. User <address@dom.ain>
It is more reasonable to always give the real name, optionally followed by an email, that to consider that the real name is a mere comment for the email address. Oh, I know some hackers who praise themselves as login names or dream having positronic brains :-), but most of us are humans before anything else!
Could the PEP be reformulated, at least, for leaving the choice opened?
Should we instead say that any acceptable RFC822 address would be an acceptable alternative for a simple name? If so you'd get naiive mail users complaining that they couldn't reach "@python.org:sholden@holdenweb.com" (for example). I don't really see why the address format has to agree with any particular other format: if you're going to use it in a program then there's no reason why you shouldn't mangle it into whatever form you (or your possibly-crippled software) requires :-) The major benefit of the present situation is that it's well-defined. I don't feel additional alternatived would be helpful here, especially when the existing format is RFC822-compliant. though-i-admit-i'm-not-up-to-speed-on-rfc2822-ly y'rs - steve ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------