[Distutils] Packaging Distribute

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 13:52:55 CEST 2009


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like "distribute2"
>
> You could even take the opportunity to rename it completely to something
> that makes sense ;-)
>
> To re-iterate my argument: Distribute doesn't distribute anything. If
> anything was to be called Distribute, it'd be the PyPI software. Calling it
> Installer or Pacman might make more sense...

Sorry I won't run a new poll again, Distribute is the name.

Besides, it's already on page #1 on google when I type 'python
disribute' or 'distribute python'

Tarek


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