Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 08, 2010, at 04:58 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I read this as a -1 for changing PyPI to use project. Still, support *for* renaming it is much wider, it seems. I wish there was a humorous, ironic name for the service that is evocative of the Python language's original conceit. Something

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread John Gabriele
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:43 PM, John Gabriele wrote: 3. People don't like calling those MyProject-1.0.2.tgz thingies distributions. They keep calling them packages, and when you correct them, they say, [sigh], fine.

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Barry Warsaw wrote: I wish there was a humorous, ironic name for the service that is evocative of the Python language's original conceit. Something that at first glance says we should have lots of tasty morsels to offer here, then oh, sorry, the cat's eaten them. The irony of course being that

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
Just my 2 cents: - The definitions that Tarek proposed it exactly how I already use the words. - I think Python Project Index is a better name than Python Package Index. But Cheese Shop is still better. :) That's all I have to say about it. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Brad Allen
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: Just my 2 cents: - The definitions that Tarek proposed it exactly how I already use the words. - I think Python Project Index is a better name than Python Package Index. But Cheese Shop is still better. :) That's all

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread P.J. Eby
At 11:00 AM 1/8/2010 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: Just my 2 cents: - The definitions that Tarek proposed it exactly how I already use the words. - I think Python Project Index is a better name than Python Package Index.

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Regebro wrote: Just my 2 cents: - The definitions that Tarek proposed it exactly how I already use the words. - I think Python Project Index is a better name than Python Package Index. But Cheese Shop is still better. :) That's all I

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:35:39AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Jan 08, 2010, at 04:58 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I read this as a -1 for changing PyPI to use project. Still, support *for* renaming it is much wider, it seems. I wish there was a humorous, ironic name for the service that

[Distutils] zc.buildout generated console scripts with sys.exit

2010-01-08 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hello, I wanted use zc.buildout for a program that I wrote, but noticed that the generated console script does not call sys.exit, unlike setuptools. My main function uses a structure as explained by Guido in http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829 def main(argv=None): if argv

[Distutils] zc.buildout generated console scripts with sys.exit

2010-01-08 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hello, I wanted use zc.buildout for a program that I wrote, but noticed that the generated console script does not call sys.exit, unlike setuptools. My main function uses a structure as explained by Guido in http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829 def main(argv=None): if argv