[Distutils] Maintainer and Maintainer email metadata

[Tarek Ziadé]

I am going to start a new PEP defining a new, more sane EGG-INFO
directory format,
and clarifying the need to make metadata that we can put in setup.py match with
the ones in PKG-INFO file.


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:05, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Right now Distutils will let you add the name of the maintainer and
>> the name of the author as two distinct metadata in your package.
>>
>> When creating the PKG-INFO, Distutils includes an "Author" line.
>>
>> To build it, it will look at first for at the maintainer metadata and
>> use it if provided, then only at the author metadata.
>>
>> This is not a correct behavior;
>>
>> Two points:
>>
>> 1/ Distutils should not use the maintainer metadata to create the
>> *Author* line in the PKG-INFO
>> 2/ We could add  the extra "Maintainer"  field in PKG-INFO,
>>
>> I am all for 1/,   but I am not sure for 2/.  I never use the
>> Maintainer field my self.
>>
>> Any opinions ?
>
> Who is the maintainer is more important than who is the author. +1 on
> adding a Maintainer field in PKG_INFO.
>
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> Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting.
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>



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