On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:

The tools that people use to install a Python package sort it before
alpha and have for many years. That seems to be a pretty good argument
in favor, all other things considered.

Yes this is what I've been trying to say, I agree that in a clean room implementation

the difference here would be mostly bikeshedding, however since it is a bikeshed

then we should endeavor to keep the existing bikeshed instead of switching.