On Jul 11, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Richard Jones wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> The questions for us is, how much effort we are willing to make to >>> prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. I can >>> understand >>> why Phillip would like the package index to prevent people from >>> choosing >>> problematic package names. >> >> That's not my understanding - the issue isn't with "problematic >> package >> names", but with conflicting package names. IOW, any single name is >> fine - it's a pair of names that would cause a problem (and only if >> you wanted to install both packages on the same system). > > A big issue that's not been raised is that *distutils* have no > package name > rules, but it's being proposed that PyPI does - thus a package > author will > potentially get an error when uploading their package, and also the > name that > appears in the index may be quite different to the name of their > package.
Maybe distutils should have more package name rules than it does now. We (the Community) should be free to change things based on experience. We now have a lot more experience with this stuff than we had a few years ago. Maybe we should consider a reset. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
