[Catalog-sig] are quotes and blanks in package names a good idea ?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Mar 27 20:43:39 CET 2009


>  are quotes ' and blanks in package names a good idea ?
> "abo's pysync" broke BeautifulSoup on pypi /simple this week;
> Martin patched that quickly (thanks Martin)
> but other package tools, python or distis, will surely break.
> 
> Agree / disagree / dont-care ?

Disagree. PyPI and setuptools perform a package name normalization,
which is file-system-safe. I don't think anything else needs to
be done.

Regards,
Martin


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