[Python-Dev] standards for distribution names (original) (raw)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Sep 16 20:22:12 CEST 2010


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.)



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