[Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

[Chris McDonough]

On 7/17/09 11:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris McDonough<chrism at plope.com>  writes:
>
>> 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. ;-)
>
> Agreed.
>
>> 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.
>
> I couldn't disagree more. Discussing the name *after* release will be
> even less useful because it's so much more difficult to actually change
> it at that point.

Note that the primary package name that the "distribute" distribution embeds is 
still named "setuptools" at this point, for better or worse.  I don't know how 
long this will be true, but it's still true right now, and I suspect it won't 
change before the first release.  That may be another can of worms, but at this 
point it's probably not worth losing any sleep over.

In any case, changing the distribution name ("distribute" currently) is pretty 
trivial in comparison to changing a package name because imports don't need to 
change.  I'd begin to get more nervous when the package names change. ;-)

- C