[Distutils] Handling Case/Normalization Differences

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 Aug 2014 08:27, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> Just thought of this, if the normalized name doesn’t match the "real"
name,
> then add entries for both. This will make it so that pip 1.5 continues to
work
> and pip 1.6+.

Having bandersnatch mirrors publish under both names sounds like a good
approach.

Then the pip 1.6 release notes can just be explicit that using older
mirrors will need the extra option - earlier versions won't have a problem.

Cheers,
Nick.

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