[Distutils] PEP 241 draft

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Brad Clements wrote:
>Couldn't distutils include a very tiny "xml generator" that writes out the data in XML 
>format, rather than this ancient rfc822 form?

This could equally be done by people who need the XML form; it would
be a few lines of code:

metadata = rfc822.Message(open('METADATA'))
print "<root><name>%s</name>..." % (metadata['name'], ...)

Since the RFC-822 parser is already written, we don't gain anything by
having to write a SAX or xmllib handler... *unless* someone shows that
we need the ability of XML to encode full-blown trees.  I currently
believe we don't need that, but will listen to a good argument.

--amk