Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:16:26PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: Is index.python.org the most boring but readable and straight-forward choice? It's just like PyPI, but Py becomes python.org, and the second P kind of disapears, and we expand the I... so it's not a choice at all, just a

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-08 Thread Tim Parkin
Mark W. Alexander wrote: I liked the pit suggestion, but MOPP works for me too. Even with PyPI being discussed here, I have a hard time reading it as being anything other than something to do with math. +1 for pypit (pyrepo?) Tim ___ Catalog-sig mailing

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-08 Thread Tripp Lilley
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, David Ascher wrote: I'm well aware of that (I'm French =). However, I don't think the US perspective is insignificant when it comes to PR =). Ah, sorry, I jumped to concussions. At least in France, it's also true that ministries bring forth concepts of inefficiency,

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-07 Thread bray
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:51:29 -0700, Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [holger krekel wrote] FWIW, i liked MOPP aka the ministry quite a bit. Do the religious overtones of ministry not bother people at all? Reminds me of the death rock: http://www.ministrymusic.org/

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Brant Harris wrote: Now I know I am talking about superficialities here, and as a geek I understand it's completely against the geek code, but I believe it to be an important reality of our time. I'm personally happy with the publicity that Python gets. It does what I want it to do for me - I

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-07 Thread holger krekel
Hi David, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:32 -0700, David Ascher wrote: I find the discussion depressing in many ways. Did i miss some of the discussion? At least on catalog-sig and in the blogs it was going quite ok in my opionion. But maybe we had different expectations :-) holger

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-07 Thread David Ascher
I find the discussion depressing in many ways. Did i miss some of the discussion? At least on catalog-sig and in the blogs it was going quite ok in my opionion. But maybe we had different expectations :-) I'm probably just being cranky for lack of sleep. Just ignore me =). my 2c: silly

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-07 Thread Tripp Lilley
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, David Ascher wrote: I think the idea of joking around with religious terms like ministry is a bad idea, because we're not as funny as John Cleese friends. Just for the record, the term ministry, outside the U.S., has more to do with administrative functions of government:

Re: [Catalog-sig] Perhaps PyPI will do

2005-04-06 Thread Brant Harris
I think I have to raise objection. 'PyPI' might 'do', but we have a chance to create something that will capture imaginations. As much as I hate to admit it, it's the name and personality that will incite discourse and raise interest, only after that will its functionality shine. rant = \ This