On Jul 24, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> 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. >
Personally I don't have much of a problem with PyPI (pie pee eye) vs. PyPy (pie pie). --Noah _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
