[Distutils] Metadata fields

Sean Reifschneider jafo@tummy.com
Thu Mar 22 02:44:01 2001


On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:48:21AM -0500, Mark W. Alexander wrote:
>But that's not really the source. Since distutils handles
>(in theory) all binary formats, the catalog should only have to
>manage information about the "real" distutils source with
>some kind of pointer to where particular binaries live. 

So, for a binary you would basicly just have a set of fields which
indicated "binary of <package>-<version> built for <platform> in
<format> distribution format"?

Sean
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