On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Chris Withers<ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> We have started a new project called 'Distribute'. It's a fork of >> setuptools and its initial purpose will be to tackle >> the most annoying bugs found in setuptools 0.6c9 version. > > Just to make these comments publicly too: > > *Please* consider a different name.
Not to mention the PITA of Googling "distribute" > "distribute" just seems wrong as this project doesn't actually do any > distributing. PyPI and other package indexes do the distributing, setuptools > does installation and setup. > > My own preference would be "setuptools2" with the first release being > version number 2.0. This makes it very clear what the package is, solves the > PyPI problem and involves less changes in things like buildout (well, a few > characters anyway ;-) ) > > Also, what DVCS is being used? I hope it's Hg, otherwise it means another > toolset to learn if I want to help out, which means me helping out would be > less likely. (I hope you wouldn't see that as a good thing ;-) ) > > cheers, > > Chris > > -- > Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig