At 10:04 PM 7/23/2007 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > 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.
Yes, especially since compatibility with the existing installation base requires case insensitivity, because on case-insensitive platforms easy_install already normalizes the case of filenames it creates. So, the question of what the "right thing" to do is in the abstract has already been moot for a year or two. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
