[Distutils] Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email

[Donald Stufft]

On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Keep in mind that this is the structured index metadata, which is only
>> used to grab requirements (for end users, who usually don't need the
>> other information at all) and used to generate cheese shop web pages.
>> AUTHORS.txt works when you don't need an automatic "email the author"
>> button. Or the project's github information etc.
>> 
>> Someday the JSON version of the metadata will certainly make all these
>> fields a little nicer to parse though.   Maybe
>> 
>> "authors" : [{'name':'bob', 'email':'bob at example.org'}]
>> 
>> The author/maintainer distinction will stay.
> 
> FWIW, the current draft of PEP 426 has this note:
> 
> .. note:
> 
>    This section currently mimics the flat layout used in past metadata
>    versions. Perhaps it would be better to switch to a different format
>    closer to that used for the project URL field::
> 
>        "contacts": {
>                "author": "\"C. Schultz\" <cschultz at example.com>"
>                "maintainer": "\"P. Patty\" <ppatty at example.com>"
>            }
> 
> So yeah, I'm not particularly happy with the current structure for the
> contact metadata either, but it's a *long* way down my priority list
> of problems to address in the next draft. (My aim to get that posted
> last week proved to be overly optimistic. Because this next update is
> the key-value -> JSON-compatible structured metadata switch, it's hard
> to post a partial update and still have it even vaguely readable)
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
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Looking at other languages they all seem to accept N number of "authors" or
"contributors". Possibly something like that would be a good to do.

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