>> But the package name and version are in the PKG-INFO files, so it >> certainly has access to non-normalized names. Why can't it double >> check a possible match against that file? > > Because if case actually made a difference, we couldn't have both > packages installed in the same directory, could we?
Right. However, there is a difference between case-insensitive, and case-preserving. > Note that if what's bothering you is the package index access time, use > Apache's mod_speling to enable case-insensitive URLs for the static page > tree. That won't help. If you look for a name of a non-registered package, setuptools will go to the index even if mod_speling corrects spelling errors. Such an approach is only possible if setuptools would stop using the entire index if the server has case-insensitive lookup (which it cannot determine). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
