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