[issue6992] Adding a Contributor field in PEP 314
Marc-Andre Lemburg
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Sep 30 14:30:36 CEST 2009
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> So at the end, the changes on distutils setup() side would be:
>
> - authors (goes in Author field - with "," separations )
> - contact_email (goes in Author-email field)
> - deprecation of the "author", "author_email",
> "maintainer" and "mainainer_email" arguments
>
> So the metadata doesn't change and we have what we want.
-1 on that idea :-)
The meta-data is only used by PyPI and perhaps a handful
of other tools. The setup() keyword parameters OTOH are
used by most packages out there, so any change to these
has to be carefully planned.
Overall, I find the presented use case not really relevant
enough to warrant such a huge change. Even less so, since
there is a solution that works today without any changes.
The addition of the maintainer meta-data field would not
hurt anyone and create more consistency.
The rest is just documenting best practices.
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