[Python-Dev] standards for distribution names

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:08 PM 9/16/2010 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>...I'd thought that the "correct names" for distributions would have 
>been documented in one of:
>
>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345
>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376
>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386
>
>...but having read them, I drew a blank.

Forgot to mention: see distinfo_dirname() in PEP 376 for an 
explanation of distribution-name normalization.

(Case-insensitivity and os-specific case handling is not addressed in 
the PEPs, though, AFAICT.)