Note that the primary package name that the "distribute"
distribution embeds is still named "setuptools" at this point, for
better or worse. I don't know how long this will be true, but it's
still true right now, and I suspect it won't change before the
first release. That may be another can of worms, but at this point
it's probably not worth losing any sleep over.
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. I'd begin to get more
nervous when the package names change. ;-)
Also, this entire discussion may be moot if, as I'm currently
understanding it, this is simply a matter of other people doing
maintenance and bug fixes to the 0.6 branch... in which case there
is a very strong possibility that I'll just bless various versions
of it as official 0.6 versions of setuptools.
(One obstacle to this actually happening, though, is the part where
they're stripping out my release tools, like wikiup.cfg, version
+version.dat, etc., as I would need to add these back in order to
actually do a release.)
If you'd bless distribute as one of setuptools versions, wouldn't it
be a perfect moment to move its documentation away from the (often
slow) PEAK wiki, use a Sphinx build (as already worked out in the
setuptools-0.6 branch) and publish it on http://packages.python.org/setuptools/?
There is even a useful setup.py command to help publishing it: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx-PyPI-upload/
Best,
Jannis
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