[Python-checkins] r73441 - in python/trunk: Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst Misc/NEWS
tarek.ziade
python-checkins at python.org
Tue Jun 16 09:29:52 CEST 2009
Author: tarek.ziade
Date: Tue Jun 16 09:29:52 2009
New Revision: 73441
Log:
Fixed #6287: documentation for the license field in distutils
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst Tue Jun 16 09:29:52 2009
@@ -590,6 +590,8 @@
+----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| ``platforms`` | a list of platforms | list of strings | |
+----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
+| ``license`` | license for the package | short string | \(6) |
++----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
Notes:
@@ -611,6 +613,13 @@
The ``long_description`` field is used by PyPI when you are registering a
package, to build its home page.
+(6)
+ The ``license`` field is a text indicating the license covering the
+ package where the license is not a selection from the "License" Trove
+ classifiers. See the ``Classifier`` field. Notice that
+ there's a ``licence`` distribution option which is deprecated but still
+ acts as an alias for ``license``.
+
'short string'
A single line of text, not more than 200 characters.
Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Tue Jun 16 09:29:52 2009
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
+
- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
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