[Buildroot] Package naming convention [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scanpypi: new utility]

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

 Hi all,

 A topic for all to discuss here...

On 07/15/15 16:08, Denis Thulin wrote:
[snip]
>>> +def pkg_buildroot_name(pkg_name):
>>> +    """
>>> +    Returns name to avoid troublesome characters.
>>
>>  No it doesn't.
>>
>> Returns the buildroot package name for the PyPI package pkg_name.
>>
>>
>>  In fact, the function should also prepend the python- prefix,
>>  because the
>> buildroot name starts with python-.
> 
> Actually, I have a question here, should I change . into - or into nothing ?
> I'm asking this because when looking into existing packages I noticed 'web.py'
> became 'python-webpy' but 'zope.interface' became 'python-zope-interface'

 Good question, we indeed have no real convention of what the buildroot name is
for packages with weird characters.

 Actually, we do: keep the upstream name as much as possible. So python-webpy,
for instance, keeps the upstream webpy name (note that the upstream name is
webpy, even though the package is identified in PyPI as web.py. PyPI isn't very
consistent either). For zope.interface, I actually see no reason not to keep the
upstream name, so the package really should have been called
python-zope.interface IMHO.

 What do the others think?

 BTW Thanks Denis for pointing this out.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
>>
>>> +    Remove all non alphanumeric characters except -
>>> +    Also lowers the name
>>> +
>>> +    Keyword arguments:
>>> +    pkg_name -- String to rename
>>> +    """
>>> +    name = re.sub('[^\w-]', '', pkg_name.lower())
>>> +    name = re.sub('^python-', '', name)
>>> +    return name
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