Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Replacing the author/author_email/maintainer/maintainer_email mess with > a single authors argument, that fills a multi-valued "Author" metadata > field make it clearer.
What does changing the type of the "author" field make clearer exactly? It is a field for human beings to read, and a human being is perfectly able to parse "AP <a...@example.com>, Tarek <ta...@example.com>" without the help of a computer. While there may be some things to clear up in the current metadata, this shouldn't be a pretext to gratuitously change things that are ok. I'm bothered that many people currently seem to think that it's ok to break compatibility for whatever non-critical reason. This is not the way we will make Python a reliable platform to use and develop for. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6992> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
