[Catalog-sig] ConfigObj vs configobj in pypi

[Richard Jones]

On 14/07/2009, at 11:28 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:15:22 -0700, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk 
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Some packages have package names with mixed case. Example: ConfigObj
>> .. as registered in setup.py. However, other packages such as  
>> turbogears
>> specifies "configobj" (lowercase) in their install_requires.
>> Is `get_distribution(name)` supposed to handle mixed cases? Will it
>> match both 'ConfigObj' and 'configobj'?
>>  An abomination for which I am truly sorry - however to be precise  
>> I'm pretty sure the setup.py specifies configobj and it is only  
>> registered on PyPI with mixed case (which I don't believe I can  
>> change).
>
> I believe you can change it by asking catalog-sig at . I remember the  
> MoinMoin project doing the same a while ago.

I've made this change.


    Richard