On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Kent Tenney<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Chris Withers<[email protected]> wrote: >> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> >>> We have started a new project called 'Distribute'. It's a fork of >>> setuptools and its initial purpose will be to tackle >>> the most annoying bugs found in setuptools 0.6c9 version. >> >> Just to make these comments publicly too: >> >> *Please* consider a different name. > > Not to mention the PITA of Googling "distribute"
Ok so everyone agrees it's a bad name for many good reasons :) I am changing to setuptools2 then. For other remarks Chris made: - which DVCS : Mercurial. I think it's the best pick for such a project, if you come for Subversion you'll be up and running with Hg within an hour. There are many guides/tutorials out there. for instance : http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hgsvn.html - for the mailing list, I'd like to stay on distutils-sig, unless many people want a separate list for it, so I am 0- Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
