Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-11 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2014, 17:17 +0100 schrieb Frank Brehm: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Brehm frank.br...@profitbricks.com * Package name: pathlib Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net * URL :

Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-11 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 14:35 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner: Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2014, 17:17 +0100 schrieb Frank Brehm: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Brehm frank.br...@profitbricks.com * Package name: pathlib Version : 1.0.1

Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-11 Thread Ben Finney
Benjamin Drung benjamin.dr...@profitbricks.com writes: The source is called pathlib, but the binary packages are called python-pathlib and python-pathlib-doc. Even for the source package name, =E2=80=9Cpathlib=E2=80=9D is IMO too gene= ral. This is specifically a library for Python programmers

Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-11 Thread Ben Finney
Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org writes: On Dec 12, 2014, at 08:36 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Even for the source package name, “pathlib” is IMO too general. This is specifically a library for Python programmers only; its source package name should not grab a generic name like “pathlib”. Why not

Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 12, 2014, at 02:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Name collision is one such problem that can reasonably be foreseen if the package name is too generic for its purpose. Perhaps. It's worth doing a search of existing FLOSS projects and see if there are existing projects that could reasonably

Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-10 Thread Frank Brehm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Brehm frank.br...@profitbricks.com * Package name: pathlib Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib * License : MIT Licence Programming