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

[anatoly techtonik]

Thread hijacked.

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anatoly t.


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> 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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