[Distutils] README.rst vs DESCRIPTION.rst

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Matthew Iversen <matt at notevencode.com>
wrote:

> For example, the two are different for flask, virtualenv, setuptools,
> sopel, numpy
>

these are some pretty significant, complex packages.

I have trouble finding an objective reasoning that one method is to be
> objectively preferred over the other.
>

No one is suggesting reducing flexibility here. The topic under discussion
is what should be recommended and demonstrated for newbies, and the
simplest reasonable thing to do there the better - one Readme.rst seems the
obvious answer for that.


We always want to balance this with keeping `sampleproject` as simple as
> possible to make it practical and
> immediately useful, rather than overly technical.
>

Exactly.

-CHB



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