On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:27 PM, John Gabriele <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the PyPI allow two differently-named distributions to contain > identically-named packages?
Sure, it does. PyPi only guarantees the uniqueness of the distribution name. And it can only do that for projects hosted on PyPi, there's nothing preventing anyone to host a distribution with the same name on a different service. As an obvious example take distribute / setuptools. One being a fork of the other, means they currently contain packages and scripts with the exact same names. There's also cases where projects change their distribution formats after a while. Like the Chameleon distribution, which now contains the code formerly found in the separate chameleon.core and chameleon.zpt distributions but the package structure stays the same. Hanno _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
