[Distutils] PyPi not allowing duplicate filenames

[Donald Stufft]

On October 14, 2015 at 2:27:40 PM, Donald Stufft (donald at stufft.io) wrote:
> On October 14, 2015 at 2:25:31 PM, Nathaniel Smith (njs at pobox.com) wrote:
> > On Oct 14, 2015 11:12 AM, "Donald Stufft" wrote:
> > >
> > [...]
> > >> Apparently some packages were making assumptions about the format of the
> > numpy.__version__ string, and having .postN in there caused errors when
> > they tried to process it. (It would be helpful if there were a little
> > permissively licensed standalone implementation of PEP 440 comparisons,
> > suitable for the "if pkg.version > ...:" checks that people insist on doing
> > -- I couldn't find one in some quick searches.)
> > >
> > > https://github.com/pypa/packaging
> > >
> > > It’s what both pip and setuptools use (though we embed it, but it’s fine
> > to depend on it too).
> >
> > That's under Apache 2, so it can't be used by GPLv2 packages, or any
> > package that might be used by GPLv2 packages.
>  
> I suspect it’d be trivial to relicense it. There’s a total of 6 contributors and I think  
> I know how to get ahold of all of them.

https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/42



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