[Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How about making it "Change-Log" in that case, and have the content of
>> the changelog
>> directly added in the metadata ?  Rather than an url.
>
> That might be good, if the changelog was in a separate file. It's quite
> commonly a very long text file, as it retains the change history of the
> code base indefinitely.
>

Yes, and if it's reStructuredText based, we will be able to do what people
do actually, by integrating a reST-based CHANGELOG file at the end of
long_description:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout#change-history