Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerl...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 28/01/2023 19:02, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, Michał Górny wrote: >>>> However, it's been pointed out that this makes it hard for people to >>>> find packages they're looking for. >> I don't understand this argument. Why would all-lowercase make finding a >> package harder? > > Here's an example, on pypi we have packages: > - git-python > - python-git > - GitPython > - git-py > > Each of these is a different package. The package you usually want is > GitPython, but if we would name it gitpython or git-python, things would get > very confusing very quickly. In fact, this package was renamed precisely to > avoid this confusion in [1]. This is not the only case where there are very > similarly named packages on pypi. By having a 1 to 1 mapping between names in > pypi and names in ::gentoo we avoid this confusion.
AFAIK, but I cannot find a source confirming this, PyPI project names are case-insensitive, so it should be okay to map to all lowercase. > Best regards, > Andrew > > [1] > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0dec450a90c7490f11df7e69cd9c6709c099285c -- Arsen Arsenović
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