On Mar 29, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:PyPI is just too anonymous and is also too easy to confuse with PyPy. I've never been particularly happy with the name.
So, any suggestions for a new name?"Cheese Shop" came to me late at night over the weekend. I know it sucks, but it's Pythonic. :) ...
I like it! So if a package happens to be missing from the catalog, the catalog maintainer can always claim the cat ate it. ;)
Something a little more "professional" might be nice for some people.. though personally I don't have that constraint, I've seen a lot of people whine about such things on lists.
The only two things that bother me about PyPI are the non-obvious pronunciation (I also had no clue that WSGI sounded like "whiskey" either, until I heard PJE talk about it) and the fact that "I" and "l" look so similar in most fonts (esp. those you'd see in a web browser).
versiontracker.com is a popular site to find Mac OS X software, and pythontracker.* seems to be available (though the name is a bit long, and such a derivative name is a cop out).
Something with eggs might make sense once PJE and I wrap up bdist_egg and friends, though that would be for binaries :) Unfortunately, SpamAndEggs.* are taken.
-bob
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