Hi Tarek,

While I was reading this PEP, I noticed that it suggests the '-' character as separator (between name, version, etc..) .. naturally introducing '_' *within* names and versions.

'python_ldap-2.5.a_5.egg_info'

This decision looks odd to me, as several package systems I know of use the '_' character as seperator. In Debian,

'python-ldap_2.3.5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb'

Besides, it is very common for Python packages to use '-' in their names instead of '_'.

[.. pypimirror]$ ls | grep "_" | wc -l 200 [.. pypimirror]$ ls | grep "-" | wc -l 628

Why not use '_' as separator?

Cheers, Sridhar