[Distutils] PEP 241 draft

[Paul Prescod]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Can you (or some volunteer) please write up a description of this
> transformation and post it?  

<package>
<name>...</name>
<version>...</version>
<platforms>...</platforms>
<description>...</description>
<long-description>...</long-description>
<keywords>...</keywords>
<x-myextension>...</x-myextension>
</package>

> I can't really figure out what this would
> buy us, but am not quite sure what you're suggesting.

The main one is easier extensibility to structured types. And other ones
I've mentioned before...XML editor support, future potential
sub-structure for long-description, i18n, ...

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