[Catalog-sig] More documentation for setup meta-data

[Stuart Bishop]

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 12:18  PM, Richard Jones wrote:

> I'm trying to better document the meta-data for the distutils (and  
> hence
> PyPI). I've added words to the section in the dev doc about meta-data,  
> and
> would like some feedback before I post the patch to be applied. Sorry,  
> it's
> in LaTeX form (until someone writes the ReST->python doc converter ;)

A patch was applied yesterday to dist.tex btw:
	https://sourceforge.net/tracker/ 
?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=693474&group_id=5470

In particular, 'home_page' should be 'url'

I think a definition of 'short string' and 'long string' are required:
	- Are Unicode strings allowed?
	- What formatting is allowed (eg. none whatsoever for short string,
       and ReST for long string)? I think either ReST or an HTML subset
	  is required for the long description. It would suck if long  
description
	  ended up in a <pre> section on pypi, although this would be usable if
	  lines were shoved through textwrap.wrap()

It would be benefitial to mandate certain trove classifiers, to make  
browsing
usable on pypi (at the moment, about 75% of projects are implemented in  
no
language whatsoever!)

How about at least one of:
	Development Status :: *
	Environment :: *
	Intended Audience :: *
	License :: *
	Operating System :: *
	Programming Language :: *
	Topic :: *
and possibly to complete the set of top level classifiers:
	Natural Language :: * (does this mean the language the docstrings are  
written
                            in, or programs dealing with language  
processing?)
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Stuart Bishop <zen@shangri-la.dropbear.id.au>
http://shangri-la.dropbear.id.au/