[Distutils] [issue24] Rename easy_install
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 15 01:51:30 CEST 2008
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20080614 03:18], zooko (zooko at zooko.com) wrote:
>
>>I said it was "too late", because there are already lots of people
>>worldwide who know the name "easy_install".
>
> Nothing proper release notes and the likes cannot fix.
My objection to the name "easy_install" is that is sounds
like a piece of marketing propaganda. If something based
on it were to become part of the standard distribution,
I would hope that a more neutral name could be found.
--
Greg
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