On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Kevin Teague<kevin@bud.ca> wrote:
A plural class name looks strange (I think it's the first time I see one in the CPython codebase). How about another name? (DistributionPool, DistributionMap, WorkingSet etc.).
Sure, WorkingSet is nice, it's the name used in setuptools,
A WorkingSet and a DistributionDirectories (or whatever it gets named to) are different things though, no?
A WorkingSet is "a collection of active distributions", where each distribution might come from different distribution directories:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#workingset-objects
Where as DistributionDirectories is a dictionary of locations where distributions are installed. The WorkingSet may be comprised of distributions from several different locations, and each location may contain the same or different versions of the same distribution.
DistributionDirectories can contain directories that are not located in the same parent directory, so I find it rather similar besides the "active" feature in Python doesn't exist (yet) In any case, maybe picking up a name that is not from setuptools will be less confusing for people that uses WorkingSet classes nowadays. What about using the same names used in Python's site module: "sitedir" is the name used for a directory we named DistributionDirectory. So what about : DistributionDirectory -> SiteDir DistributionDirectories -> SiteDirMap ++ Tarek