[Distutils] distribution name capitalisation considered important ; -)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Mon Sep 20 10:37:37 CEST 2010


On 15/09/2010 19:58, P.J. Eby wrote:
> I can't speak to the others, but setuptools *always* ignores case. If
> you have found it not to, please file a bug report so I can fix it.

Where's the right place to report?

The problem I had was using a file:// to find-links on Windows, whereby 
setuptools ends up causing os.path.normcase to be called on the 
distribution name, lowercasing an otherwise perfectly correctly cased 
distribution name...

Chris

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