Description

Quoting PJE: [quote]'(...) The problem is that the package is mis-registered on PyPI; its setup.py declares its name "moin", so that is its distribution filename. However, on PyPI it is indexed as MoinMoin. You may wish to inform the maintainers of this, so they can update either the setup.py to use MoinMoin as the name, or change the Pypi registration to use "moin". Either should work, assuming that the distribution is able to work with setuptools. (You'll have to try it and see.)'[endquote]

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-June/012311.html

Steps to reproduce

# easy_install moin
Searching for moin
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/moin/
Reading http://moin.sf.net/
No local packages or download links found for moin
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse
('moin')


# easy_install MoinMoin
Searching for MoinMoin
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/MoinMoin/
Reading http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
Reading http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload
No local packages or download links found for MoinMoin
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse
('MoinMoin')

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Details

Workaround

Discussion

The name problem is known. Quite some months ago, I tried to contact someone at PyPi so the outdated wrong package gets removed. It didn't work out.

So, if you like to get this fixed, make me a contact a PyPi who is able and willing to fix such stuff. -- ThomasWaldmann 2009-06-23 12:42:20

re: pypi contact. send an email to catalog-sig@python.org

On 09-06-25 11:08 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Thomas Waldmann wrote:
>> See there for details:
>>
>> http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/FixPyPIName
>>
>> Could someone at PyPi please help to fix that?
> 
> I have deleted the moin package.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

Please delete the 'MoinMoin' entry in PyPI and instead use 'moin' as PyPI name. There is no reason to use a different name when setup.py's name is 'moin'. Such aberrations can only cause the installer tools to employ hacky means to find project URLs. -srid

Plan

PyPi should kill the current and very outdated "moin" entry.

Then they either should rename MoinMoin to moin or kill MoinMoin also.

We could then use setup.py register with "moin" as project name.

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• Status: "moin" is now the pypi name as well as the package name in setup.py, the "MoinMoin" package and also all outdated "moin" package data were removed from pypi.

CategoryMoinMoinBugFixed