Re: Keywords field in metadata: space separated or comma separated?

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:24 PM Paul G <[email protected]> wrote:
> Was anyone on the list involved with the decision to use spaces in the spec? Is there some compelling reason we're missing to make the switch?

distutils was originally conceived and written by Greg Ward at CNRI,
back when Guido led a group there.  Greg was in another group, but
they were active Python users as well.  We (primarily Greg & I) spent
a lot of time discussing distutils and how things should work, but I
don't recall specifically discussing keyword separators.  The whole
keywords thing was pretty geared to our guesses about how an index
would work; actually implementing the first version of PyPI wasn't a
part of Greg's project.

Getting far enough along to build a range of C-based extensions was a
pretty substantial bootstrapping task in the late '90s!

On November 18, 2019 1:07:50 PM UTC, Thomas Kluyver
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The comma-separated format allows keywords containing a space - like 'orbital mechanics' in the example I was investigating (poliastro).

This seems reason enough to stick with the current implementation
approach and forget about space separation.


  -Fred

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