[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 16:58:25 CEST 2009


Holy Apollo, stop this sillyness. THE NAME DOESN'T MATTER! People are
using TextIndexNG3 for Armstrongs sake. :-)


2009/7/17 Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>:
> David Lyon wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:17:47 +0100, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> packagetools yes, but we already have pkg_tools :-S
>>
>> packagetools is very easy to read, talks about 'packages' and
>> may be vaigely reminiscent to setuptools...
>
> packagetools or pypackaging would make me happy, if we can't get PJE to
> either allow us access to setuptools or if no-one has the guts to just use
> setuptools2 (which is exactly what this project is ;-) )
>
> I'm annoyed by the poll because it only had two crap options on it for the
> first majority of the votes. Tarek doesn't see this as a problem (because it
> sees 'distribute' stay as the project name) and is sure it's all fair
> because people can re-vote if they want to.
>
> So, if you voted and wanted something other than "distribute" or
> "redbarrel", please re-vote. If your option isn't there, please consider
> selecting the awkwardly named third column option.
>
> Myself, I'd prefer an option not on there, but I don't know what to do, if I
> change my vote, the only other option on the poll stands less chance of
> succeeding.
>
> Myself, I'd prefer setuptools2, packagetools, pypackaging, disttools,
> {anything else} in that order...
>
> Chris
>
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