At 07:08 AM 7/23/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >On Jul 22, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>At 09:09 AM 7/22/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >>>People should *not* misspell pages >>>when using setuptools. They should certainly not use misspelled >>>package names in requirements. >> >>People do all sorts of things they shouldn't. That doesn't stop >>them blaming other people for their mistakes. >> >>It's said that a 10% improvement in ease-of-use can double a >>product's users. Case sensitivity is a barrier to entry for new >>users, and setuptools can't afford any additional entry barriers. > >I totally don't buy this in a case like this. People installing >packages with setuptools are technical users. We expect them to >write Python scripts.
No, "we" don't. Eggs were created to support application-level plugins, such as are used by Trac and Chandler. Trac and Chandler users are not necessarily programmers, let alone Python programmers. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
