On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Basically: Historical reasons. The name “PyPA” was a joke by the >> pip/virtualenv developers and it was only pip and virtualenv so it was on >> Github. > > > here's an anecdote.... per the pypa.io history page, 'Other proposed names > were “ianb-ng”, “cabal”, “pack” and “Ministry of Installation”' > > https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/history/ > > maybe even funnier that we have a history page, but it's easy to forget all > that's happened, so I made one awhile back... >
Oh man, too bad “Ministry of Installation” was not chosen, my favorite! -- Paul Eipper _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
