On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:56 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote: > Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> At 01:09 PM 7/24/2007 -0400, Stephen Waterbury wrote: >>> Actually, I wasn't confused. :) I'd suggest a convention that >>> allows >>> a distribution "title" (e.g., "Zope", "Twisted", etc.) and a >>> distribution "name" that would simply be the name of the >>> distribution's top-level package (e.g., "zope", "twisted", etc.), >> >> This proposal would rule out namespace packages ... > > I thought about that. The rule for namespace distributions would > be to > allow dotted names, e.g. "zope.interface", "zope.schema", etc., as are > often currently used. In fact, in a real sense, those *are* the > top-level packages of namespace packages.
Those are the top-level packages of those distributions. >> in addition to being >> incompatible with existing distribution names. > > I thought the point was to come up with a new distribution naming > convention, because there currently isn't one -- but the naming > convention has to be consistent with all existing distribution > names? Seems a tough constraint. No, my proposal was to define: - Rules for constructing *legal* (as opposed to "good") project names - Rules for variations on project names. ... >> -- a distribution may contain zero or >> more packages (even top-level) ... > > Indeed, and I've always disliked multiple top-level packages in an > [installable unit]. No offense intended, but this seems arbitrary to me. Note that not only can a distribution contain more than one package, it can contain no packages. >> *and* a single package (top-level or >> otherwise) may be spread over more than one distribution. > > IMO, a package that's spread over more than one distribution should > probably not be top-level in both distributions. :) Phillip was (I think) referring to namespace packages. Namespace packages are a very important tool for maintaining some sanity in package naming. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
