At 02:44 PM 5/30/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: >Maybe I was confusing this with a bug related to packages with spaces in >their names. In particular, WSGIUtils: >http://www.owlfish.com/software/wsgiutils/downloads/WSGI%20Utils-0.5.tar.gz > >I suspect this doesn't work because it creates an egg >WSGI_Utils-0.5-py2.4.egg/, with a package name (in >WSGI_Utils-0.5-py2.4.egg/EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO) of "WSGI Utils"
What do you mean by "this doesn't work"? Currently, the egg runtime never reads anything out of PKG-INFO except for the 'Version' field. So, although the 'Name' field reads "WSGI Utils", it is still recognized as the 'WSGI_Utils' package by 'require()'. What it *won't* be recognized as, is 'WSGI Utils', which is a requirement syntax error since package names in requirement specs can't have spaces in them. You're probably right, though, that the PKG-INFO file 'Name:' should match the actual egg name, so I've made that change and it should go out in 0.3a3. (The 'Name:' will read 'WSGI-Utils'). Note that egg names can currently only contain alphanumeric characters, '_', or '-'. And those last two are interchangeable, as '-' is converted to '_' in the egg's actual filename. Spaces in the setup(name="") argument are converted to '-'. It's possible that this range could/should be expanded somewhat, but it seemed prudent to be conservative initially, since it's easier to add capability than to take it away. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
