Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-05-07 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 29. 04. 20 16:27, Tomas Orsava wrote: Hello everyone. I’m working on a change to rename pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y, e.g. python39 to python3.9. *Motivation:* When you install an additional Python interpreter, the command that runs it contains a dot (e.g. /usr/bin/python3.9) but the

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 00:38 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 29. 04. 20 21:42, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > > > What you say is true. I still don't agree that "python3.9" as a package > > > name > > > annoys humans. > > > > I am not a package pro, but simply reading along as an interested human > > user.

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 29. 04. 20 21:42, Lloyd Kvam wrote: What you say is true. I still don't agree that "python3.9" as a package name annoys humans. I am not a package pro, but simply reading along as an interested human user. To me, adding periods in package names can be confusing. My sentence was about

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 19:57 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > What you say is true. I still don't agree that "python3.9" as a package name > annoys humans. I am not a package pro, but simply reading along as an interested human user. To me, adding periods in package names can be confusing. I will

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 29. 04. 20 19:50, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I don't agree that "python3.9" as a package name annoys humans or break automation scripts. How does it? As soon as you have a different naming convention for numeric and non numeric qualifiers all the code that manipulates your package names must

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 29. 04. 20 19:37, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le mercredi 29 avril 2020 à 19:18 +0200, Miro Hrončok a écrit : All [compat packages] MUST include the base name suffixed by either: Well we are not creating a compat package here and not adding an hyphen creates an artificial numeric/non numeric

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 29. 04. 20 18:41, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le mercredi 29 avril 2020 à 16:27 +0200, Tomas Orsava a écrit : Hi, I’m working on a change to rename pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y, e.g. python39 to python3.9. Motivation: When you install an additional Python interpreter, the command

Re: Renaming pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y (e.g. python39 to python3.9)

2020-04-29 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:28 AM Tomas Orsava wrote: > > Hello everyone. > I’m working on a change to rename pythonXY packages to pythonX.Y, e.g. > python39 to python3.9. > > Motivation: > When you install an additional Python interpreter, the command that runs it > contains a dot (e.g.