[Python-ideas] Add citation() to site.py

[Gyro Funch]

On 3/18/2016 1:41 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/17/2016 7:45 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>> But then again I've never cared about citations.
> 
> Citations are not just in Bibliographies.  PEPs have them in 
> footnotes, which was a traditional place for citations, though
> in the modern form of hyperlinks.  The tracker is full of
> in-line citations, also in the form of hyperlinks.  The
> formalized citation proposed by Stephen would include the URL.
> 

Could 'citation' be an optional entry in setup.py instead?
I cite software in papers I write, so having easy access to this
information for each package I use in a given analysis would make
this task easier.