- add the "download_url" field to the pre-2.2.3 metadata compatibility note
- fix some markup nits
diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
index 92b8637..6f8d5c6 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@
path, the opposite of the MacOS convention with colons.)
This, of course, only applies to pathnames given to Distutils
-functions. If you, for example, use standard python functions such as
-\function{glob.glob} or \function{os.listdir} to specify files, you
+functions. If you, for example, use standard Python functions such as
+\function{glob.glob()} or \function{os.listdir()} to specify files, you
should be careful to write portable code instead of hardcoding path
separators:
@@ -714,42 +714,42 @@
Python versions prior to 2.2.3 or 2.3.
\item[(4)] The list of classifiers is available from the
PyPI website (\url{http://www.python.org/pypi}).
-\end{description}
-
-\option{classifiers} are specified in a python list:
+ \option{classifiers} are specified as a list of strings:
\begin{verbatim}
setup(...
- classifiers = [
- 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
- 'Environment :: Console',
- 'Environment :: Web Environment',
- 'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
- 'Intended Audience :: Developers',
- 'Intended Audience :: System Administrators',
- 'License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License',
- 'Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X',
- 'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
- 'Operating System :: POSIX',
- 'Programming Language :: Python',
- 'Topic :: Communications :: Email',
- 'Topic :: Office/Business',
- 'Topic :: Software Development :: Bug Tracking',
- ],
+ classifiers=[
+ 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+ 'Environment :: Console',
+ 'Environment :: Web Environment',
+ 'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
+ 'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+ 'Intended Audience :: System Administrators',
+ 'License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License',
+ 'Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X',
+ 'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
+ 'Operating System :: POSIX',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python',
+ 'Topic :: Communications :: Email',
+ 'Topic :: Office/Business',
+ 'Topic :: Software Development :: Bug Tracking',
+ ],
...
-)
+ )
\end{verbatim}
+\end{description}
-If you wish to include classifiers in your \file{setup.py} file and also
-wish to remain backwards-compatible with Python releases prior to 2.2.3,
-then you can include the following code fragment in your \file{setup.py}
-before the \code{setup()} call.
+If you wish to include classifiers or a download URL in your
+\file{setup.py} file and also wish to remain backwards-compatible with
+Python releases prior to 2.2.3, then you can include the following
+code fragment in your \file{setup.py} before the \code{setup()} call:
\begin{verbatim}
# patch distutils if it can't cope with the "classifiers" keyword
if sys.version < '2.2.3':
from distutils.dist import DistributionMetadata
DistributionMetadata.classifiers = None
+ DistributionMetadata.download_url = None
\end{verbatim}