[Distutils] RFC-822 or XML?

[Paul Prescod]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> Indeed, and in the simple hack for 2.1, how should a field like:
> 
> Long-description: <a><b>Messed-up tags</a></b>
> 
> be handled?  If <>& aren't escaped, this will generate invalid XML; if
> they are escaped, you can't represent a structured description anyway.

Long descriptions have tags in them NOW? If that's true, that's a bad
thing.

> I really, *really* think an XML format buys us nothing in the 2.1 time
> frame.  

That's fine. You're doing the work. You decide.

> ... 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.

I don't think there is any benefit then you shouldn't do it.

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