<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey there!<div><br></div><div>Recently there has been a lot of work around packaging in Python. On my end of things I've been trying to clean up PyPI. Recently I've deployed a change that ensures that all *new* package names on PyPI conform to a strict set of rules. These rules are:</div><div><br></div><div> - Must begin and end with an ASCII alphanumeric</div><div> - Must contain only ASCII letters, digits, underscores, hyphens, and periods</div><div><br></div><div>Now we are left with about 235 total projects out of ~31k who do not conform to these guidelines. Out of those 235 projects Twisted is one of the major ones (Not Twisted itself, but Twisted Web, Twisted Core, etc).</div><div><br></div><div>Now the plan that we've come up with is to migrate any name that the only invalid characters are internal whitespace by replacing the whitespace with a -. This would Make Twisted Web Twisted-Web. This reflects already what is required to install Twisted Web via pip or easy_install.</div><div><br></div><div>So I'm emailing you all to warn you about this upcoming change since Twisted is one of the major projects affected and also to see if the Twisted developers would prefer a different rename than Twisted-Web.</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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