At 03:02 PM 7/12/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
We're talking about technical users and I think it is reasonable to expect them to be precise in their specifications.
IMO, "technical users" is a wider range of people than you seem to be thinking of. In any case, this is a separate topic from disallowing too-similar names -- which you agree we should do. 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. 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.