>> After some discussion, it seems that nobody really likes >> the name "cheeseshop" for the Python Package Index, >> and some people seem to actively hate it. > > I was under the impression that that's also the case for the name > "PyPI", which was changed because of difficulty of disambiguating from > "PyPy" in conversation.
That may be the case - however, Guido van Rossum said he would like to see PyPI promoted, and thought that this already had been decided. Richard Jones doesn't object; so PyPI it is. > Cheeseshop is at least a word that is obviously a noun, and it is in > somewhat more common use, with 224000 google hits for "cheeseshop python > -monty", versus 199,000 for "pypi python -monty". Sure. I can see all the reasons why one would like to have something like that. However, it's an authority decision, and I firmly believe in authority when it comes to naming things - somebody has to pick a name, and PyPI is the name that got picked (along with its full spelling of "Python Package Index" - google for that also) But then, I can't even see why the number of hits is important - what matters is what comes out at place 1 in Google. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
