[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Apr 17 16:07:42 CEST 2009


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René Dudfield wrote:

> Is it just me, or are these classifiers not as good as tags?
> 
> Should people really have to discuss and get approved what tags they put on
> their software?
> 
> Seems like a big waste of everyones time, and doesn't result in as good a
> database.

Controlled vocabulary fields have different usecases than tags /
folksonomy:  precise searching is one of them.

For licensing, I would say we could update the PEP to say that the
'licence' argument could be used to clarify the classifier (e.g., to
spell the version).


Tres.
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