[Distutils] PEP 345 - 3 new fields

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Nov 23 02:03:01 CET 2009


"Sridhar Ratnakumar" <sridharr at activestate.com> writes:

> What are the possible use-cases (by the tools) of these new fields
> would be?

One of the important consumers of package metadata is PyPI. I imagine
these fields will be presented to the user along with other data about
the package.

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