-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 23, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:46 PM 7/23/2007 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Under that principle, can I renew my plea for a better name than >> "easy_install"? > > Do you have a specific name in mind? I knew you were going to ask that. :) My first requirement is "something without an underscore". My second would be "something that's evocative of snakes and eggs". A couple of Pycons ago I think I suggested 'hatch' which IIRC you didn't like because you wanted to reserve that for some other function, but I've forgotten what that was. OTOH, a quick search didn't reveal any collisions with hatch(1) on *nix. lay(1) is probably not a good choice <wink>. egg(1) is probably the best choice IMO. It doesn't conflict with any other existing *nix command that I can tell, and I can't think of a better command for dealing with Python eggs. It's immediately evocative. Now that I think about it, maybe it was 'egg' that you wanted to reserve. I like 'egg' too because Ruby gems are managed with the gem(1) command so there's a parallel that is easily remembered. I'd further recommend that Python itself come with an 'egg(1)' command, which should be a shortcut for 'python setup.py'. To be honest, the latter is not as user friendly as 'egg sdist bdist_egg upload -s' but if the two use cases conflict too much, then egg(1) should be reserved for the end user because developers can swallow the slight inconvenience more easily. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRqT1vXEjvBPtnXfVAQLjbAP/av1ONvVJLULNQNqrrkXyqlEPFmbNHAqH piS2Db+8CyU2JCEa7cpqrv04S69kaTp6DdPggdIJbbqMNH4WQFUjP15HESky+4qH ExkjbxdKCnxC0U6UO9DLng6NkMwJpeddYkzf+/XlgunCxW2EjatMsqZkYpSH/Zov dBDdKCylT0s= =im3z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
