On 13 November 2017 at 17:33, Ethan Smith <et...@ethanhs.me> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> PyPI doesn't distinguish between the names 'foo-stubs' and 'foo_stubs' >> -- they get normalized together. So even if you use 'foo-stubs' as the >> directory name on sys.path to avoid collisions at import time, it >> still won't allow someone to distribute a separate 'foo_stubs' package >> on PyPI. >> >> If you do go with a fixed naming convention like this, the PEP should >> probably also instruct the PyPI maintainers that whoever owns 'foo' >> automatically has the right to control the name 'foo-stubs' as well. >> Or maybe some tweak to PEP 541 is needed. > > As I understand it however, the distribution name need not map to to the > package name in any way. So regardless of if foo-stubs is seen as foo_stubs, > I could name the distribution Albatross if I wished, and install the > foo-stubs package into site/dist-packages, and it would work. Also I'm not > sure if the PyPI change would require an edict from a PEP, but if so, I > wouldn't be opposed to the idea, I think it would be nice to default the > stub packages to the owners of the normal packages (people should, to my > understanding, be able to make alternate distributions without hassle).
Questions like the following aren't new ones: - If I am responsible for the name 'foo' on PyPI, how much influence, if any, should I have over the use of 'foo' as a prefix in other distribution package names? - If I ship a distribution package through PyPI containing an import package named 'bar', how much influence, if any, should I have over the use of 'bar' as an import package or module name in other distribution packages? I expect that the PSF will need to address them directly some day, but I don't think PEP 561 itself needs to address them (and the first version of PEP 541 probably won't either). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
