On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > It looks like space causes most of the issues. I'm not sure how > "Twisted Flow >= 1.0" would be expected to parse.
You would spell it "Twisted-Flow>=1.0", at least for setuptools-based tools. Setuptools already restricts effective package name characters to [a-z0-9.-], and limits the names in some other ways. For example, you can't have multiple dashes in a row. Btw, I'm not sure that restricting the character set is actually going to fix confusion problems. Donald's "Djang-" example actually works because the command line tools interpret the request as being for a package called "Djang-", and if I understand correctly, you would still be able to register a package named "Djang-" on PyPI. I think that tools will need to more explicitly address the issue of 8-bit data in their input, e.g. by rejecting it. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
