Hi all, (I hope that this hasn't been discussed previously) so I've been trying to find out whether there's an explicit recommendation for creating and naming scripts/entry points depending on Python version that they're built with, but I didn't find any. As an example, setuptools' easy_install uses "easy_install-MAJOR.MINOR" (with dash), while pip uses "pipMAJOR.MINOR" (without a dash). Also, some projects only create "foo-MAJOR.MINOR", while others also create "foo-MAJOR" (and most also create "foo" without any versions). It may seem like an overkill, but wouldn't it be best to standardize: - which version is preferred (with or without dash) - which of these three variants (foo-MAJOR.MINOR, foo-MAJOR, foo) should be created by default
Or better yet, I think it'd make sense to provide setuptools facilites to create these variants in a sensible default way and provide installation flags to alter this behaviour. Right now, it seems to me that every project is doing this on its own, which is not only inconsistent, but it also duplicates lots of efforts and is more error prone than providing one centralized solution (e.g. a function in distutils/setuptools). Thoughts/comments? Thanks! -- Regards, Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
