Re: Naming policy for application vs library packages in Python

2017-08-11 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "ZJ" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: ZJ> This guidelines are just too vague, and I think this is the source ZJ> of many disagreements over naming. Well, there is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Libraries_and_Applications which I don't think is particularly vague.

Re: Naming policy for application vs library packages in Python

2017-08-10 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:46:42AM +0200, Petr Viktorin wrote: > On 08/10/2017 02:49 AM, Ben Rosser wrote: > >Hi, > > > >This is following up on a brief conversation I was part of in IRC > >(#fedora-devel) earlier: > > > >I've never been quite sure how to name packages written in Python when > >the

Re: Naming policy for application vs library packages in Python

2017-08-10 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 08/10/2017 02:49 AM, Ben Rosser wrote: Hi, This is following up on a brief conversation I was part of in IRC (#fedora-devel) earlier: I've never been quite sure how to name packages written in Python when they are just applications. Many "applications" written in Python still install themsel

Re: Naming policy for application vs library packages in Python

2017-08-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 10 August 2017 at 10:49, Ben Rosser wrote: > As a counter-proposal I would suggest that, as we currently do, we > require the python3-prefix to be provided by the package, but > explicitly leave it to the packager+reviewer's discretion whether or > not the prefix must be part of the real name,

Naming policy for application vs library packages in Python

2017-08-09 Thread Ben Rosser
Hi, This is following up on a brief conversation I was part of in IRC (#fedora-devel) earlier: I've never been quite sure how to name packages written in Python when they are just applications. Many "applications" written in Python still install themselves using distutils or setuptools, and so in