[Distutils] distribution name capitalisation considered important ; -)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Sep 20 23:16:42 CEST 2010


At 09:37 AM 9/20/2010 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>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?

http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/


>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...

...resulting in what problem?



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