[Distutils] RFC-822 or XML?

[Moore, Paul]

From: Andrew Kuchling [mailto:akuchlin@mems-exchange.org]
> I'd also really like to get this checked in by next Monday, and am
> noting the tendency toward feature creep starting.  Support for
> versioncheck and multiple authors and such things are all good ideas,
> but they'll require writing more code, and we're already at the beta
> stage, so I'm really anxious to minimize the changes.  Shall we simply
> vote on the issue?  RFC-822 or simple XML (from Paul's algorithm cited
> above)? +/-1, +/- 0 voting, as on python-dev.

+1 for RFC-822
-0 for XML

I agree, let's KISS and get something out. Overdesign is not a virtue - CPAN
"just growed".

Paul