[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

Kent Tenney ktenney at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 16:36:55 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> We have started a new project called 'Distribute'. It's a fork of
>> setuptools and its initial purpose will be to tackle
>> the most annoying bugs found in setuptools 0.6c9 version.
>
> Just to make these comments publicly too:
>
> *Please* consider a different name.

Not to mention the PITA of Googling "distribute"

> "distribute" just seems wrong as this project doesn't actually do any
> distributing. PyPI and other package indexes do the distributing, setuptools
> does installation and setup.
>
> My own preference would be "setuptools2" with the first release being
> version number 2.0. This makes it very clear what the package is, solves the
> PyPI problem and involves less changes in things like buildout (well, a few
> characters anyway ;-) )
>
> Also, what DVCS is being used? I hope it's Hg, otherwise it means another
> toolset to learn if I want to help out, which means me helping out would be
> less likely. (I hope you wouldn't see that as a good thing ;-) )
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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