meejah <mee...@meejah.ca> writes:

> I believe this was "just" fallout from following Python upstream changes -- 
> that is, switching to "hatch" / hatchling (one of the choices of the wider 
> Python switch to PEP0517) instead of 500+ lines of custom Python, setup.py 
> etc.
>
> I have filed https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/4173 to track this.
>
> That made it into the release notes as "switched to hatch" but maybe didn't 
> capture nuance like this :(
> https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/blob/master/NEWS.rst#dependencyinstallation-changes

Thanks.   Well, changing the distfile name because of a tool change is
still a bug :-)   It is conventional for packaging systems to name
things based on distfile names, or rather for pkgname == distfile-name
== repo-name == human-used-name.

But maybe python culture is just becoming problematic.
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