Chris McDonough <[email protected]> writes: > In any case, changing the distribution name ("distribute" currently) > is pretty trivial in comparison to changing a package name because > imports don't need to change.
Quite the opposite is true in my experience. Computers are our willing slaves; if we tell them sternly that an object is henceforth to be known by a different name, they will use that name unquestioningly, and won't get the two names confused. People's usage of names, though, is far less easy to change. Once the project is discussed consistently by a particular name, that name will stick around for better or worse for a *very* long time. To deny this reality and hastily choose a bad name is a foolish move, precisely because it is so predictable for the name to stick indelibly once chosen. -- \ “All good things are cheap; all bad are very dear.” —Henry | `\ David Thoreau | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
