On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/8/12 Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>:
> > I am glad that you have started thinking about the module split.
> >
> > 1) Why are the distributions named in CamelCase? Why not
> > 'distribute.resources' instead of 'DistributeResources' (like, for
> instance,
> > zope.interface instead of ZopeInterface).
>
> Because the distribution name is not the packages names.
> See for instance the Paste project : PasteScript, Paste, PasteDeploy.
>

Incidentally, when I named these Setuptools had a bug with certain
characters in the package names, like ".".  So there wasn't much of a choice
at the time.

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