[Distutils] Re: PEP 241 draft

[Carey Evans]

Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org> writes:

[...]

>     Author-email
> 
>       A string containing the author's e-mail address.  It can contain
>       a name and e-mail address in the legal forms for a RFC-822
>       'From:' header ("name <email>" or "email (name)").

The IETF DRUMS working group's drafts deprecate the latter format,
saying that the "name <email>" form _should_ be used.  This would
probably be a good idea for the metadata.

    http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/drums-charter.html

[...]

>       Example: 'C. Schultz <cschultz@example.com>'

Strictly speaking, this isn't a valid RFC 822 address - the name in
that form of address is supposed to be a sequence of <word>s, which
doesn't include ".".  In practice everything accepts it, but it should
be written:

    "C. Schultz" <cschultz@example.com>

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