Ignore newlines when processing keywords/platforms #347
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Newlines in `keywords` or `platforms` can break the produced metadata in PKG-INFO or METADATA files. Fixes: pypa/setuptools#4887
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Thanks for this proposal. My instinct is it would be better to guide users toward one best format, preferably something with proper syntax support, i.e. a full sequence of values, whether in Python or toml. What do you think about instead deprecating anything but |
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Newlines in
keywordsorplatformscan breakthe produced metadata in PKG-INFO or METADATA files.
Fixes: pypa/setuptools#4887
Another possibility is to raise an error if
keywordsorplatformscontain newlines but this fix is simple and backward-compatible and does not break projects that have multiline definitions of those attributes.