[Distutils] Package name != filename, and: Python version information
Samuel Abels
newsgroups at debain.org
Fri Feb 23 23:04:31 CET 2007
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:54 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:03 AM 2/20/2007 +0100, Samuel Abels wrote:
> >On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:38 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > > Oops. It appears I mis-spoke. For backward-compatibility reasons,
> > > setuptools only fixes this filename issue when building eggs, not source
> > > distributions.
> >
> >I am still unsure; does this mean that there is no way for uploading
> >packages whose name have a space in them to PyPi?
>
> Did you try "setup.py sdist upload"? I don't know if PyPI restricts
> filenames or not.
Well, the file is made available (with the whitespace character
included), but things like the Cheesecake service (and, according to the
Cheesecake service, easy_install) won't work.
Will there be a way to change the filename in future releases?
> By the way, your mail client seems to think that today is the 20th - you
> might want to check your clock settings.
Sorry, I fixed it.
-Samuel
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