[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/7/16 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
> 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...

yes that' the plan, but the first release might be a "bug-free" clone
of the current
setuptool 0.6 branch, containing everything, before we start to split
it, in various
distributions.

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

I agree with the fact that "setutptools2" is too close, I said I'd
change because I don't care
about the name, really.

So here's my suggestion:
I'll keep the "distribute" name unless someone comes up with a better
name here before the first release,
followed by more than 4 : "+1".

(I need to figure out a bikeshedding resolver process, that may help
for distutils discussions too ;) )

Cheers
Tarek