[Catalog-sig] Perhaps "PyPI" will do

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Apr 8 00:08:17 CEST 2005


On Apr 7, 2005, at 2:29 PM, holger krekel wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 13:51 -0700, Trent Mick wrote:
>> [holger krekel wrote]
>>> FWIW, i liked MOPP aka the ministry quite a bit.
>>
>> Do the religious overtones of "ministry" not bother people at all?
>
> Ah, this connection didn't occur to me probably because
> i am not a native speaker.
>
> Anyway, playing a bit with terms of authority is a good
> thing IMO.  And the python package ministry would be an
> authoritative source of python applications.  Moreover,
> there is quite some preaching going on in open source land,
> anyway :-)

The word Ministry isn't used only for religion, anyway...  I usually 
think of "Ministry of Defence" -- which many countries seem to have 
(the US doesn't, though).

-bob



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