[PyVault-devel] Re: package name for mod_python (Re: introduction)

[Jeff Pitman]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:21, Terrel Shumway wrote:
,[
]oSas,nsamsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa	aq		> > I'd 
consider mod_python more of an application.  Though, try to
> > poke around to see what precedents we have--has Debian or others
> > done this before?  I'm thinking possibly mod_pythonXY should be
> > sufficiently descriptive.
>
> I consider mod_python a library, because you cannot run it
> standalone. It fits in the same space as pythonXY-cheetah and
> pythonXY-webware
>
> Debian also considers it a library. They call it:
>
> libapache[2]-mod-python[x.y]
>
> I don't like the _ either, but changing mod_python to mod-python
> threw me for a loop -- I couldn't find it until I searched on just
> "python"
>
> following our naming convention, it would then be
>
>  pythonXY-apache2
>
> I like that, but I don't like removing mod_python.
>
>  pythonXY-apache2-mod_python
>
> is a bit long, but tells the whole story
>
>  pythonXY-apache2-mod_python-3.1.3-1.fc3.pyv.i386.rpm
>
> is 52 characters.  I can live with that.
>
> I can also live with `mod_pythonXY`, because that is what the DSO
> file will actually be called, and because it still has `mod_python`
> as a substring for searches.

-- 
-jeff