At 04:35 PM 12/31/2005 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: >What's the purpose of transposition between `-' and `_'? -- -jeff
The distutils put '-' between different parts of the filenames it generates. If dashes aren't escaped, it prevents the filename from being unambiguously parseable by a computer. As it is, when looking for source distributions or win32.exe files, EasyInstall has to treat filenames as having every possible ambiguous interpretation, since the distutils currently generate such ambiguous filenames for non-setuptools projects. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
