On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Daniel Holth writes: > > > Another solution comes to mind. Put the description in the payload. > > That would work for me, but it would cause extensibility problems if > anybody later found a use for other formatted fields. I have no > intuition for that.
That level of extensibility mainly shows up with the extra metadata files in the .dist-info directory (so it's part of the wheel and installation database formats, but not a concern for the main metadata file). An in-memory metadata interchange format would need to deal with it, but such a format can also use properly structured datatypes. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
