> But by definition, the people typing the names of the dependencies into > a 'setup.py' for such a plugin *are* Python programmers, and could be > expected to know about case sensitivity. > > I don't think Jim was areguing that human-centric *search* should punish > misspellings, but rather that encouraging such sloppiness in other > packages is a misfeature, especially if supporting it induces a tax on > *all* users of automated dependency resolution.
Right. I think Phillip is primarily talking about package names as specified on the command line of easy_install. So if your concern is about package names specified in dependencies, one solution could be that setuptools distinguishes whether to apply case corrections and normalization, depending on whether it was an end-user-typed name or a programmer-specified one. What I don't know is how difficult that would be to implement, and what volunteer is supposed to implement it if it were easy/possible, so I by no means propose that such a solution should be implemented, even if it would solve the problem. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
