[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] setuptools or PyPI problem...?

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:40 am, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 01:37 PM 9/23/2005 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
> >I believe what you're proposing would require changing Python itself so it
> >enforces restrictions on package names (ie. all lower-case, very limited
> >punctuation, no whitespace). I think that's a good idea, but I also think
> > at this point that the cat's out of the bag :(
>
> Python doesn't let you use spaces and arbitrary punctuation in package
> names, so perhaps I've misunderstood you.
>
> Also, just in case you've misunderstood me, I'm referring above to
> *project* names, not package names.  For example, PEAK has its project name
> registered as PEAK on PyPI, but its Python package name (that you actually
> import) is 'peak'.  I'm referring above only to project names, not package
> names.

By "package name" I mean the distutils package name.


     Richard
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