Finish off the Platform header

Add entry to Posting-History
Use "the package" instead of "this package" at one point
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Type: Standards Track
Created: 12-Mar-2001
Status: Draft
Post-History:
Post-History: 19-Mar-2001
Introduction
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Platform (multiple use)
A (XXX whitespace? comma?)-separated list of platform
specifications. Platform specifications are limited to the
following list:
A comma-separated list of platform specifications, summarizing
the operating systems supported by the package. The major
supported platforms are listed below, but this list is
necessarily incomplete.
XXX copy list from PPD? SourceForge?
POSIX, MacOS, Windows, BeOS, PalmOS.
Example: 'XXX'
Binary distributions will use the Supported-Platform field in
their metadata to specify the OS and CPU for which the binary
package was compiled. The semantics of the Supported-Platform
are not specified in this PEP.
Example: 'Platform: POSIX, Windows'
Summary
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Keywords (optional)
A list of additional keywords to be used to assist searching
for this package in a larger catalog.
for the package in a larger catalog.
Example: 'Keywords: dog puppy voting election'