1 Jun
2017
1 Jun
'17
1:37 p.m.
On 2017-05-31 20:08:51 -0400 (-0400), Donald Stufft wrote: [...]
Both {name} and {version} MUST have any - characters escaped to a _ to match the escaping done by Wheel. Thus a sdist for a project named foo-bar with version 1.0-2 which is using a .tar.gz container for the sdist would produce a file named foo_bar-1.0_2.tar.gz. [...]
While I agree with the reasoning, if this is going to end up enforced by common tooling in the near future a warning period would be appreciated as it implies a fairly significant behavior change which will require quite a lot of adjustments to bespoke automation (at least for some I maintain, and I'm pretty sure there are plenty
more out there too).
Jeremy Stanley