[Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork
P.J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Jul 17 13:27:01 CEST 2009
At 07:38 PM 7/17/2009 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>Whether or not the fork is friendly, it is a fork, not a
>continuation. Also, there never really was a âsetuptools 1â. I
>think it's only going to be confusing to call this âsetuptools 2â.
Definitely. I'd really rather it not be called that, and would
prefer that your versioning scheme not imply a continuation
either... *especially* if it's based on the 0.6x branch, which is
just about a dead parrot at this point.
>So I propose the name âRed Barrelâ as directly suggesting
>packaging (barrels), and having the reference to a popular Monty
>Python sketch a sketch about packagee tours, hence another
>âpackageâ reference.
Nice.
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