On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:21 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> Hmm. I'm somewhat skeptical about setuptools (or any other packaging >>> infrastructure, say, Debian) establishing rules on what makes a >>> difference in package names. >> >> Why? It certainly seems reasonable to me for a packaging system to >> define rules for package names. > > Ah, sure. It's certainly fine and reasonable for a packaging system > to do that for its own purposes. However, I'm skeptical about that > packaging system then to enforce its rules on other systems (such > as the cheeseshop, which is not packaging system).
OK, let's take a step back. IMO, PyPI is a *part* is the packaging system. If we can't agree that that is true, then we need to find a package index that *is* part of the package system. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
