On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Since Stefan talked about aim at getting 0.12.x into Python stdlib, I
> think we should discuss package names.
>
> 1) Currently there's "Cython" for the package with the compiler and
> "cython" for the "shadow" module importable from pure Python. I feel
> this is both confusing and error-prone. A solution is to rename the
> former to e.g. "cythoncompiler". (However, unless more renaming is done,
> one would have "cythoncompiler.compiler". Perhaps "cythoncompiler.core").
>
I would just do the renaming
Cython -> Core
> 2) Should all the package names be converted to lowercase?
>
Perhaps we should follow PEP 8 ?
Package and Module Names
Modules should have short, all-lowercase names. Underscores can be used
in the module name if it improves readability. Python packages should
also have short, all-lowercase names, although the use of underscores is
discouraged.
Since module names are mapped to file names, and some file systems are
case insensitive and truncate long names, it is important that module
names be chosen to be fairly short -- this won't be a problem on Unix,
but it may be a problem when the code is transported to older Mac or
Windows versions, or DOS.
> 3) Should one perhaps distribute Cython under two seperate package
> names, so that a standalone version can coexist with the one in stdlib?
> This would facilitate easy installation and usage of non-stdlib Cython
> releases. Can't come up with any good names though.
>
1) cython
2) cython.core
3) cython.pyximport
Regarding (1), I would make it have in the cython/__init__.py define
__version__, and also have cython/run.py for cmd line work with -m
switch, and make __init__py use that for newer Python versions that
let you run packages. cython/__init__.py should also manage the shadow
stuff
Regarding (2), that's what I've previously suggested.
Regarding (3), not a strong feeling.
All this plus good support for making Cython work from a ZIP would
make it really easy to switch to Cython's other than the system one...
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Lisandro Dalcín
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