[Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Sat Jul 18 04:37:18 CEST 2009


I'd be quite happy if Tarek ignored the meta-drivel in this thread and made some 
checkins, even if the project was named the empty string.  You gotta realize 
that fielding all these bikeshed emails takes a lot of time; if it gets named 
"distribute" or one of the two options from the poll, so be it.  Give the poor 
man a mail-responding rest. ;-)  There's all of eternity to bikeshed the name 
after the first release, but a release is required for there to be anything to 
bikeshed about.

- C

On 7/17/09 10:25 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Ok I'll act a bit like a dictactor for this ;)
>
> I think that would be an excellent idea. A dictator would consider all
> the arguments, and *declare* the name, knowing they would be responsible
> for the consequences of that decision.
>
>> here's a Poll with the two finalists
>
> Huh? A dictatorship doesn't involve a poll. A poll is what you use when
> you don't want responsibility for the decision. Or are you saying the
> results of the poll don't matter?
>



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