At 11:42 AM 3/12/2010 +0530, Baiju M wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:13 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 12:38 PM 3/11/2010 +0530, Baiju M wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Baiju M <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > If "_" is a valid project_name identifier, why it is replaces with "-" ?
>
> In order to have a canonicalized name form which can be escaped
in filenames
> for unambiguous identification of an egg's project and version.
>
> Egg filenames use '-' as a separator between name, version, python version,
> and platform. A '-' in any of these components is escaped as '_', so that
> the '-' remains a viable and unambiguous separator. This means that '_'
> gets turned back into a '-' when unescaped, so the mapping between '_' and
> '-' is part of the safe_name canonical form.
Sorry, I confused.
Then, why "_" was added as a valid project name identifier ?
It's a valid project name character; what it's not is a *canonical*
project name character.
_______________________________________________
Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
