[Catalog-sig] Case sensitivity of package names

[Jim Fulton]

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

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