On 9/15/2010 8:59 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
On 15/09/2010 16:57, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
On 9/15/2010 6:53 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
Looks like we have quite a consistent set of rules with regard to
captilisation of package names on file systems where case isn't
important, shame the same can't be said for distribution names.
[...]These differences cause subtle problems in tools which attempt to
pin versions of particular distributions.
Going by what you wrote about pinning versions, are you talking about
Buildout?
Yes, but I expect the subtleties apply to otehr tools too...
Hmm. I wonder if distutils2' metadata parser and distribution classes
(will) handle names case-insensitively.
lowercased by all tools all of the time. How do others feel about this?
pip, easy_install and pypm already ignore case.
The only "sane" option now would be for all distribution names to be
...sometimes ;-)
pypm always ignores case, I am not sure about pip, easy_install.
"pip|easy_install install pastescript" worked for me though.
But not buildout? I
suggest that we a) make pypi disallow registering package names with a
differing case
That won't help, and it's not feasible. PyPI is far from the only
index people use.
Are there package indexes, apart from PyPI, that allows registering
packages?
b) make buildout case-insensitive.
Indeed.
Doing so is a good idea. It didn't lead to any conflicts at least in my
experience. Maybe make this part of the metadata parser in distutils2,
Tarek?
-srid
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