[Distutils] Useless field (was Re: Finishing PEP 345)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> So, what is this field for?

See the PEP:

"Binary distributions containing a PKG-INFO file will use the
Supported-Platform field in their metadata to specify the OS and CPU for
which the binary distribution was compiled."

Seems very clear to me.

>  Can we give it a useful definition?

Useful for what? To educate a human reader? I think it's useful as it
stands. To make it machine processable? That will be very difficult to
achieve.

Regards,
Martin