As long as psycopg2 is not disappearing anywhere, psycopg3 seems better. New users will interpret psycopg2 as "more advanced psycopg".
Vladimir On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 10:06, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: > On 11/10/20 9:12 AM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have received some concerned voices in regard to have a package called > > "psycopg3". I guess many have been burned out by the Python 2 to 3 > > transition, and now it's not a happy pair of number to see next to each > > other. Sorry, Fibonacci... > > > > The rationale behind having the 2 in the package name was to allow the > > coexistence between v1 and 2. But now that nobody uses v1 anymore, I > > think the name can be considered free. I believe it even predates pypi > > and the requirements.txt convention. Dark times... > > > > Anyone against using "psycopg" as package name, and starting from 3 as > > version number? > > Yes. > > 1) "psycopg" is widely used as an alias for psycopg2, so that will cause > confusion. > > 2) I see a lot of explaining why the order of versions is psycopg2, > psycopg. > > 3) People don't seem to be confused that you can use psycopg2 with both > Python 2 and 3. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- Daniele > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com > > >
