[Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 04:23:33PM -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:52:11 -0800, Tarek Ziadé
> <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hello
> >As suggested in Catalog-SIG by some people, I would like to propose
> >the addition of three more fields for 1.2:
> >"Repository-URL"
> >    A string containing the URL for the package's repository.
> >   Example:
> >        http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/
> >"Repository-Browse-URL"
> >     A string containing the URL for the package's browsable repository.
> >   Example:
> >      http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk
> >"Bug-Tracker-URL"
> >   A string containing the URL for the package's bug tracker
> >   Example:
> >      http://bugs.python.org/
> 
> What are the possible use-cases (by the tools) of these new fields
> would be? I can imagine Repository-URL to be of use (eg: pip install
> IPython==dev), but have no idea why the other two should be added.

Same as for Author and Author-email etc: more information for the
(human) users.  I think this is very valuable when browsing packages
on e.g. PyPI.

Regards
Floris

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