Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful?

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Fri Mar 26 15:22:06 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:41:30AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> 
> > * Will Andrews:
> >
> > > MAINTAINER= email at address Name1 Name2 Name3 ...
> > >
> > > ... this will still allow  programs that interpret MAINTAINER directly
> > > by taking the  second field (whitespace delimiter)  to work correctly,
> > > and makes writing said function simple.
> >
> > FWIW, there is also the Usenet notation:
> >
> > MAINTAINER= login at domain.com (FirstName LastName)
> 
> IMHO the best is: FirstName LastName <login at domain.com>
> This notation should be passed to MTA and most MUA without modification
> AFAIK.

The reason I suggested the first syntax is so just the email
address could be simply parsed.

regards,
-- 
wca
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