--On 14. Juni 2008 08:46:02 +0200 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20080614 03:18], zooko (zooko@zooko.com) wrote:
I said it was "too late", because there are already lots of people worldwide who know the name "easy_install". It would be costly to them to change it -- they'll go looking for the new version of easy_install someday and won't find it, stuff like that.
-100 on renaming easy_install to something else.
Also, your claim of 'lots of people worldwide' is taken out of thin air. I doubt you have evidence in favour or against.
Honestly spoken: the world has other problems than such a pointless issue. I introduced eggs, setuptools and zc.buildout within a bigger organization with several courses and hands-on-training. 'easy_install' is a well-known term right now and there is basically no need for renaming it - just for the sake of renaming it to something like 'pyegg' which is as pointless and generic as 'easy_install'. Leave things as they are - don't confuse people by renaming things - it's not worth the effort. Andreas