[Distutils] PEP 241 draft
Paul Prescod
paulp@ActiveState.com
Wed Mar 14 09:01:00 2001
Andrew Kuchling wrote:
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> 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.
When I look at the headers for mail messages, I see increasingly
structured information stuffed into key/value pairs. That's because
information tends to start simple and become complex as time goes by.
Therefore I would prefer we choose a future-proof format now.
I also think that Long Description looks a lot better as XML content
than as a value-string. It makes perfect sense for Long Description to
have hyperlinks in it so it may be that we will soon want it to be some
form of structured text.
Note that I can set up an XML editor to allow *only legal values* in an
XML document but have no equivalent tool for RFC-822.
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