[Distutils] Proposal: Restrict the characters in a project name

[Donald Stufft]

On May 15, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> PyPI already endures case insensitive uniqueness and considers - and _ the
>> same for uniqueness checks
> 
> Still something we should formalise in the 2.0 spec, though.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

The rule would be case insensitive, alpha numerics, and period, hyphen, and underscore where hypen and underscore are considered equivalent. Just verified this based on the current code + the proposal.

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Donald Stufft
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