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Trove categories for Buildout recipes and extensions

Currently there are 270+ distributions with "Framework :: Buildout"  trove category in PyPI. Now it's becoming bit inconvenient to identify whether a distribution contains a Buildout recipe or extension.  ( Recipes and extensions are two types of plugin mechanisms supported by Buildout).  Now there is a solution -- two sub-categories are added .  If you publish Buildout recipes or extensions to PyPI, please use the new trove classifiers in addition to the existing "Framework :: Buildout". If you are developing a recipe, use this classifier: classifiers=[ ... "Framework :: Buildout", "Framework :: Buildout :: Recipe", ... ], If you are developing an extension, use this classifier: classifiers=[ ... "Framework :: Buildout", "Framework :: Buildout :: Extension", ... ],   If the distribution contains both extension and recipe, use:   classifiers=[ ... "Framework :: Buildout", &