Hi Glyph, > It sure would be nice if we could use a made-up word like "eggs" to refer > to these things. Too bad that's taken too :-\.
Yes. "eggs" is the best name anybody could hope for to describe a package. It already has general acceptance to a large degree amongst users (despite it's faults). Even Tarek has adopted it by forking setuptools. Tarek has complete say on the direction of the .EGG What needs to be done is for a decision to occur to either kill or revive the "egg" in 2010. Let's either fix them, or kill them. Fixing the "egg" means that Tarek has to "evolve" Distribute. Which is well within his power. Killing them means taking the egg references out of existing peps and packages and pypi and starting again. That's also possible. As a regular developer, I'd call for a "L'Oeuf incredible". Excuse my bad french. A new egg to replace all the bad old eggs. We need more simplicity in packaging in python.. "eggs" are cool. They're simple. They're what users want. They're what pypi needs. I just don't know why it is that there is such a big desire in python-core to chuck out the fun and simple and try to replace it with complicated and confusing. It's so *not* monty python.. If the eggs are going to be thrown out... chuck those forkers out. But I think it would be a big mistake. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
