[Distutils] [buildout] bug related to package name capitalisation

Benji York benji at benjiyork.com
Thu Aug 12 19:55:51 CEST 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> As such, I'd expect buildout's version pinning to be case agnostic as well.
>> What do other people feel about this?

> I've seen very few cases where case-insensitivity in package names is
> tolerated (once, I think).  There's no reason to spread the
> case-senseless disease any further.

+1 Case-insensitivity usually hurts more than it helps.
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Benji York


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