On Jul 12, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: ...
Whether to then also introduce case-sensitivity into various parts of easy_install is another subject that doesn't really matter to the catalog-sig.
I'm not sure we agree on what matters to the catalog sig. :) (I still need to respond to your note on that topic.)
Please note, however, that it is not a minor change by any means -- case-insensitivity exists throughout pkg_resources and setuptools to handle operating system filename case-insensitivity, not just for index lookups. In fact, I believe the index lookups *are* case- sensitive; IIRC it's only link parsing that is case-insensitive.
I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't deal with file-system case insensitivity. If I were to change setuptools to match my opinion, I would probably just change the code that tries to get a package listing to look for close matches to print a suggestion and stop rather than guessing a package name and continuing. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org