[Distutils] PEP 426: proposed change to extension fields + entry points

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm probably the only one but I'm not a fan of JSON with all the extra "
> > marks compared to the venerable, lovely, flatter and much easier to edit
> > Key: value format.
>
> I don't really care that much about human readability of the raw
> metadata files, I care a lot more about ease of interoperability for
> automated tools, and ease of display for generic tools that may not
> understand the semantics. I also care about the standard format being
> amenable to the publication of metadata through TUF's JSON based
> infrastructure.
>

When I see that file I've always thought "why aren't we writing these by
hand instead of through setup.py and then validating that they are correct
with a tool?" Bento's file sortof follows this logic. I can accept JSON.
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