At 08:35 PM 7/11/2007 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > The questions for us is, how much effort we are willing to make to > > prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. I can understand > > why Phillip would like the package index to prevent people from choosing > > problematic package names. > >That's not my understanding - the issue isn't with "problematic package >names", but with conflicting package names. IOW, any single name is >fine - it's a pair of names that would cause a problem (and only if >you wanted to install both packages on the same system).
It's also a problem for locating the correct package in the first place... which seems to fall under the jurisdiction of a "package index". :) This is just as important for direct human users of the Cheeseshop, as it is for the humans using software to access the Cheeseshop. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
