On 20/09/2010 22:16, P.J. Eby wrote:
The problem I had was using a file:// to find-links on Windows,
whereby setuptools ends up causing os.path.normcase to be called on
the distribution name, lowercasing an otherwise perfectly correctly
cased distribution name...
...resulting in what problem?
...downstream tools, zc.buildout in this case, not functioning properly
because their version pinning relies on consistent casing.
Yeah, you could say it's a bug in buildout, but really, when the name is
correct on disk and an intermediary tool decides to screw with the case
for no good reason, I go with pointing the finger at the tool in the
middle ;-)
Chris
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