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

> I updated the ticket (4173) as well, but this is because of a
> semi-recent "setuptools" change (in v69.3.0) which I guess finally
> implemented PEP 625 -- which references the "wheel" naming
> specification. This "normalizes" package names to make "-" into "_"
> (among some other changes).
>
> So, overall it seems best to just accept this -- wheels are now named
> the same as tarballs, and we don't need to carry around custom
> re-naming code. Ideally this would have been noted better in the NEWS
> file for Tahoe-LAFS, but future releases will follow this naming
> scheme unless it causes undue hardship for downstream users of sdist
> files.

Not undue, just annoying and messy.

I guess the project in general and on pypi should be renamed to
tahoe_lafs from tahoe-lafs :-)   But that would just be more work for
everyone who has already accomodated this python "progress".
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