[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

[Paul Moore]

2009/7/16 Benji York <benji at zope.com>:
>> Ok so everyone agrees it's a bad name for many good reasons :)
>>
>> I am changing to setuptools2 then.
>
> I'll try to limit my bikesheading to this one message.
>
> Given that this is -- I'm assuming -- an "unauthorized" fork, I wouldn't
> use "setuptools2" as the name.
>
> We don't want to confuse people, and "setuptools2" is confusingly
> similar to "setuptools" (to borrow a phrase from trademark law).
>
> The new project is based on setuptools but it is not a product of the
> setuptools "project" so should have a distinct name.

Agreed.

Also, I'd suggest that the fork work on splitting out the components
of setuptools - pkg_resources, the distutils extensions, easy_install
- so that they can be used independently. That may mean being prepared
to have a number of project names, rather than just one...

And now I'll refrain from bikeshedding further, too.

Paul.