On Jul 11, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Richard Jones wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

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The questions for us is, how much effort we are willing to make to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. I can understand why Phillip would like the package index to prevent people from choosing problematic package names.

That's not my understanding - the issue isn't with "problematic package names", but with conflicting package names. IOW, any single name is fine - it's a pair of names that would cause a problem (and only if you wanted to install both packages on the same system).

A big issue that's not been raised is that *distutils* have no package name rules, but it's being proposed that PyPI does - thus a package author will potentially get an error when uploading their package, and also the name that appears in the index may be quite different to the name of their package.

Maybe distutils should have more package name rules than it does now. We (the Community) should be free to change things based on experience. We now have a lot more experience with this stuff than we had a few years ago. Maybe we should consider a reset. 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