On May 15, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> It also has a problem with setuptools, distribute, and PyPI and the way they >> do normalization. They all already assume that projects will generally have >> alpha numeric names and you can take any non alpha numeric string of >> characters and replace it with a "-". So in order to properly support >> unicode you'd have to remove all the existing versions of setuptools from >> production use, and you'd need to update PyPI to understand how to lower >> case unicode. >> >> Because I registered The snowman package, you'll find it's impossible to >> register any other pure unicode package of any length. > > If PyPI has a proper i18n and Unicode implementation first, and then > the tools are updated (perhaps distlib is an easier place to add > Unicode than setuptools), then pypi will contain: > > 1. mostly ASCII projects that everyone can install > > 2. some Unicode projects uploaded by jerks > > 3. some worthwhile Unicode-named projects that might not have been > uploaded before > > 4. some Unicode-named packages that you have to use even though you > don't like the name? > > It's true that for a long time ASCII project names will be more > convenient no matter what PyPI does, but it can be the publisher's > choice rather than being cut off at the head. I don't think it's a > tremendous amount of work to make Unicode work properly just for those > who want it.
The problem here isn't just that the old systems won't support it. It's that they both won't support it and if someone does attempt to use a unicode package they can get an entirely different package then they expected to get. The failure case is a massive security risk. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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