[Distutils] distribution name capitalisation considered important ; -)

[Chris Withers]

On 15/09/2010 16:57, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
> On 9/15/2010 6:53 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
>> Looks like we have quite a consistent set of rules with regard to
>> captilisation of package names on file systems where case isn't
>> important, shame the same can't be said for distribution names.
>> [...]These differences cause subtle problems in tools which attempt to
>> pin versions of particular distributions.
> Going by what you wrote about pinning versions, are you talking about
> Buildout?

Yes, but I expect the subtleties apply to otehr tools too...

>> The only "sane" option now would be for all distribution names to be
>> lowercased by all tools all of the time. How do others feel about this?
> pip, easy_install and pypm already ignore case.

...sometimes ;-)

> But not buildout? I
> suggest that we a) make pypi disallow registering package names with a
> differing case

That won't help, and it's not feasible. PyPI is far from the only index 
people use.

> b) make buildout case-insensitive.

Indeed.

Chris