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

[Chris Withers]

Benji York wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, but sadly, setuptools is case insensitive as far as 
distributions go, which means that buildout ends up doing bizarre things 
when different casings of the same package name are used, particularly 
when it comes to pinning versions.

Yes, the "correct" thing to do would be for buildout to kick out 
requirements where the case of the distribution name specified didn't 
match that returned by the distribution that setuptools decided would 
satisfy that requirement.

However, that would mean you'd suddenly have distributions that would 
work with easy_install and pip but not with buildout.

I guess my point is that, by way of being based on setuptools, buildout 
already *is* case insensitive w.r.t. distribution names and the fact 
that *only* version pinning *is* case sensitive ends up being a bug...

cheers,

Chris

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