[Distutils] Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email

[Donald Stufft]

On Apr 25, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I plan to reject PEP 390, since that feature won't be added to the stdlib.
> 
> The reason we will need at least a minimal replacement for it is so that there's a standard place to define and retrieve the archiver hook that creates the sdist (and hence pymeta.json) from a source tarball or VCS checkout (as well as determine the necessary dependencies for that step).
> 
A minimal file that only requires what's needed for bootstrapping the archiver is fine. 
> My reason for wanting to flesh out a more comprehensive pymeta.cfg spec, though, is as a sanity check on the proposed PEP 426 metadata. If I can't come up with a clean multi-file input format, then I will be highly suspicious of the underlying data model.
> 
I don't see anything wrong with making this spec but I don't think it should be conflated with the PEP for a standard way to bootstrap the archiver. I also don't think it belongs as a PEP as its not a proposal to enhance python just a test of the new metadata and an example of what an archiver _could_ use as its format. 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
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