[Python-Dev] PEP 345 and PEP 386

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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> I have one comment on PEP 345: Why is author-email mandatory? I'm sure
> there are plenty of cases where either the author doesn't want their
> email address published, or their last know email address is no longer
> valid. (Tarek responded off-line that it isn't all that mandatory; I
> propose to say so in the PEP.)

Yes, I propose to remove the mandatory flag from that field.

> I am also looking at PEP 376 but I expect that Tarek will start
> another round of discussion on it. Hopefully all three PEPs will be
> accepted in time for inclusion in Python 2.7.

We will work on 376 in the two coming weeks in distutils-SIG and try
to come up with
something ready for Pycon, if feasible.

Thanks for the reviews !
Tarek

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