July 24, 2007
5:45 p.m.
At 01:09 PM 7/24/2007 -0400, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
Actually, I wasn't confused. :) I'd suggest a convention that allows a distribution "title" (e.g., "Zope", "Twisted", etc.) and a distribution "name" that would simply be the name of the distribution's top-level package (e.g., "zope", "twisted", etc.),
This proposal would rule out namespace packages, in addition to being incompatible with existing distribution names. Note that package != distribution -- a distribution may contain zero or more packages (even top-level), *and* a single package (top-level or otherwise) may be spread over more than one distribution. Also note that this was true even with the distutils, long before setuptools existed.