2009/7/16 Benji York <[email protected]>: >> Ok so everyone agrees it's a bad name for many good reasons :) >> >> I am changing to setuptools2 then. > > I'll try to limit my bikesheading to this one message. > > Given that this is -- I'm assuming -- an "unauthorized" fork, I wouldn't > use "setuptools2" as the name. > > We don't want to confuse people, and "setuptools2" is confusingly > similar to "setuptools" (to borrow a phrase from trademark law). > > The new project is based on setuptools but it is not a product of the > setuptools "project" so should have a distinct name.
Agreed. Also, I'd suggest that the fork work on splitting out the components of setuptools - pkg_resources, the distutils extensions, easy_install - so that they can be used independently. That may mean being prepared to have a number of project names, rather than just one... And now I'll refrain from bikeshedding further, too. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
