Surely it has to be Unicode. Why not reuse the python 3 identifier rules, or just Unicode alphanumeric and underscore. Will miss the snowman. On May 14, 2013 11:45 PM, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> Currently PyPI allows a project name to contain basically any character > except for a /. However most of the installation tooling doesn't not work > with this wide of a namespace. It also opens up several avenues for > spoofing attack where you trick people into copy and pasting an install > command that looks like you're installing one package but you are really > installing a different one. > > So I propose that moving forward that all projects/distributions are > required to have names using only urlsafe characters. Specifically letters, > decimal digits, hyphen, period, and underscore. > > Doing this would allow a better experience for people attempting to > install packages, it would allow tool authors to test and make sure they > can install all valid packages etc. > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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