Westley Martínez added the comment:
I think I like the term catalog myself, but I'm not wholly opposed to index. I
think it is certainly better than pypi.
Although the namespace does reduce the genericness of index, a lot of
programmers (including me) like to use the from namespace import x
Éric Araujo added the comment:
The issue is moot now that packaging/distutils2 is stopped.
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Fully agreed with Alexis.
index is too generic to convey any kind of meaning and can be confused--at
least for
me--with list.index. Sometimes it is better for a name to be specific.
But it is specific, thanks to the use of namespaces in
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Alexis Metaireau ale...@notmyidea.org added the comment:
The problem is that PyPI isn't a good name since it's the name of ONE
index.
Westley, do you have any other idea?
Otherwise, I think we should stick to index, which is a good name for
something that's named index quite everywhere
Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment:
-1
index is too generic to convey any kind of meaning and can be confused--atleast
for me--with list.index. Sometimes it is better for a name to be specific.
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Alexis Metaireau ale...@notmyidea.org added the comment:
We are all calling these indexes quite everywhere. We are talking about
a Python Package Index and even the mirroring infrastructure is talking
about indexes. Because that's under the packaging namespace, it's
kind of obvious that this
New submission from Alexis Metaireau ale...@notmyidea.org:
PyPI is the name of a particular index, whereas index is a generic term.
So ISTM that it would be better to use the latter, semantically-wise.
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Hynek Schlawack h...@ox.cx added the comment:
While I can see your point, I think that index is way too generic. I also
think that the pypi term is overloaded with both meanings.
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
We could use “catalog” (see how the interest group for PyPI is named
catalog-sig), but it sounds a bit abstract to me, and at the same time fails to
convey that this module deals with finding things (in an index/catalog) and
also download them
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