On 10 August 2013 13:12, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> 6. Qualified names are currently restricted to Python 2 compatible >> identifiers. > > This constraint causes some problems in practice, some of which might be > more problematic than others: > > 1. Some existing distributions have group names which violate the constraint. > For example, nose uses group names such as "nose.plugins.0.10". Around a > hundred other distributions advertise plugins under group names like this. > > 2. Some distributions have package names which aren't actual packages but > which nevertheless contain source files. For example, Django lists > "django.utils.2to3_fixers" in its list of packages, though this is just > a directory containing fixers and not an actual package. This, of course, > also violates the constraint. > > It seems like it might be worth relaxing the restriction so that a qualified > name starts with a Python 2 compatible segment, but can have subsequent > components matching the [A-Za-z0-9]+ pattern.
Done. Cheers, Nick. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
