PEP 621: Storing project metadata in pyproject.toml

[bernatgabor (Bernát Gábor)]

@uranusjr

This was actually discussed extensively, and the conclusion was something more like “keep Authors and drop Maintainers, but make Authors semantically mean Maintainers” because tools in other ecosystem seem to suggest people don’t care about the difference anyway, and Authors is a more familiar term than Maintainers to many.

Would be nice to address this in the PEP.

@uranusjr

Tools are also expected to dynamically generate the metadata if the [project] table is completely missing. (This is not in the PEP, but probably should be included for clarity.)

Definitely needs to be included then.