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Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@g.o> writes: |
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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 get |
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> very confusing very quickly. In fact, this package was renamed precisely to |
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> avoid this confusion in [1]. This is not the only case where there are very |
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> similarly named packages on pypi. By having a 1 to 1 mapping between names in |
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> pypi and names in ::gentoo we avoid this confusion. |
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AFAIK, but I cannot find a source confirming this, PyPI project names |
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are case-insensitive, so it should be okay to map to all lowercase. |
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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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Arsen Arsenović |
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