But by definition, the people typing the names of the dependencies into
a 'setup.py' for such a plugin *are* Python programmers, and could be
expected to know about case sensitivity.

I don't think Jim was areguing that human-centric *search* should punish
misspellings, but rather that encouraging such sloppiness in other
packages is a misfeature, especially if supporting it induces a tax on
*all* users of automated dependency resolution.

In my humble opinion, I for one completely agree with Phillip. I have had to sit down with quite a few new Python Programmers and show them how to use easy_install and I "thank God" easy_install is smart enough to figure out case sensitivity. This is a wonderful feature!!!! Please don't ever get rid of it :)

Not being able to install a package as they couldn't figure out the exact name of the package could be the final straw for some new programmer to Python!

Noah Gift