[Distutils] New Restrictions on Package Names

[Donald Stufft]

On May 23, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I've just deployed a change to PyPI that restricts all *new* packages names
>> to the follow:
>> 
>> * Must start with an ASCII alphanumeric (``[a-zA-Z0-9]``)
>> * Must contain only:
>>  - ASCII letters (``[a-zA-Z]``)
>>  - ASCII digits (``[0-9]``)
>>  - underscores (``_``)
>>  - hyphens (``-``)
>>  - periods (``.``)
>> * Must end with an ASCII alphanumeric  (``[a-zA-Z0-9]``)
>> 
>> Projects that have already registered with a name that doesn't follow these
>> restrictions will still be able to upload.
> 
> This explains the new release of Unicode snowman.

;)