On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/8/12 Sridhar Ratnakumar <SridharR@activestate.com>:
> I am glad that you have started thinking about the module split.
>
> 1) Why are the distributions named in CamelCase? Why not
> 'distribute.resources' instead of 'DistributeResources' (like, for instance,
> zope.interface instead of ZopeInterface).

Because the distribution name is not the packages names.
See for instance the Paste project : PasteScript, Paste, PasteDeploy.

Incidentally, when I named these Setuptools had a bug with certain characters in the package names, like ".".  So there wasn't much of a choice at the time.

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