[Distutils] PEP 241 draft

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] PEP 241 draft
>
> Here's a proposed compromise: use RFC-822 format in 2.1final, leaving
> us with 6 months over the Python 2.2 development cycle to arrive at a
> DTD, at which point 2.2 can switch to putting XML in the METADATA
> file.  It's not difficult to determine if METADATA is XML or RFC-822
> (look for an <?xml prefix in various encodings), so catalog
> implementors can just do that and support both.  Come to think of it,
> that's also easier if the initial DTD selected is all wrong and we
> have to change it; imps need a simple RFC-822 converter, not two
> handlers for two different XML formats.

Sounds like a plan to me. A good one, too.

Mark