Matching package names across distributions

[Enrico Zini]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:20:39PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:

> > Mandriva/Mageia has as policy everybody language module must be name
> > LANGUAGE-MODULE (eg perl-foo-bar, python-foo, haskell-foo).
> 
> Well, not everybody follow the policy :/
> ( at least for python ).

If the majority follows the policy, hand-coding the minority should be a
manageable task. Also, if all new packages are required to follow the
policy, then the hand-coding doesn't need much maintenance once it's
done.

> And there is the case issue. 

Are there PyPI modules whose name differs only by case? If not, then the
case is not an issue, since case-insensitive matching would not lead to
ambiguities.


Ciao,

Enrico

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