Re: Using '+' in python package name

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>, 2011-11-04, 12:51:
> [Please CC me]

[Done.]

> http://mentors.debian.net/package/pyplusplus
>
>  It generate an egg-info with a surprising name:
>
> $ dpkg -c python-py++_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb|grep egg
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       338 2011-11-04 17:43
> ./usr/share/pyshared/Py_-1.0.0.egg-info
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2011-11-04 17:43
> ./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Py_-1.0.0.egg-info ->
> ../../../share/pyshared/Py_-1.0.0.egg-info
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2011-11-04 17:43
> ./usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Py_-1.0.0.egg-info ->
> ../../../share/pyshared/Py_-1.0.0.egg-info
>
>  Looks as if the "++" were lost somewhere.
>
>  Is this ok, or do I need to change something in my package ?

Yes, it's okay.

However, please note that "Py++" as project name is quite unfortunate. 
There's a completely unrelated Python project called "py": 
http://codespeak.net/py/

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Jakub Wilk