[Distutils] Name the software! Package quality tester.

[cool-RR]

Speaking of names, I would rename PyPI to packages.python.org, maybe move
the existing documentation center to docs.python.org, and then move the docs
of Python itself to a `/python` folder...

But that's just me.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> The winner is Wichert, with "pyroma".
>
> I do like the "stickler" name, and the cheeseshop namespace, but since
> there is nothing else in that namespace I'll wait with it. It can
> easily be moved to a "cheeseshop.compliance" or whatever in the
> future, but that the moment it's "pyroma". I'll check it in somewhere
> soon, maybe work a bit more on the plane to PyCon and probably mention
> it in a lightning talk.
>
>
> //Lennart
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 09:46, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've started working on a little utility to give a quality rating on
> > packages, expressed in 0-10 points, and also in cheese types,
> > according to smellyness.
> >
> > It's going to check for things like that it has all meta data it
> > should have, such as author_email, specifies Python versions via the
> > trove classifiers (currently works) and that it specifies all
> > dependencies (still todo). It will support both checking on a package
> > (works currently) a distribution file and PyPI (still to do).
> >
> > It's not a uniqe idea, it overlaps with Andreas Jungs
> > zopyx.trashfinder in scope, and it will also in the case of checking a
> > package on PyPI check that there are several people that have owner
> > access, and hence include the functionality of mr.parker. (In fact
> > when checking on PyPI it will also check if there are documentation on
> > packages.python.org, that the distribution files are uploaded to PyPI,
> > etc, but this is all still todo). But I didn't find anything else, and
> > I wanted bigger scopes than both these in what to check in and which
> > cases.
> >
> > But, before I move this to a public repository and upload it to PyPI,
> > there is one important thing to be determined: What should it be
> > called? Currently I'm calling it "pypilib.quality". I don't mind this
> > kind of boring names, but there is currently not a pypilib namespace,
> > and I don't want to just create top level namespaces left and right
> > for no reason. So other names are welcome. It doesn't have to have a
> > namespace either.
> >
> > In the long run I would not mind to see this utility integrated into a
> > general pypi/cheeseshop script with other utility commands, which even
> > could include installing and removing, thusly giving Perl people what
> > they think they want a "CPAN" for Python. :-)
> >
> > --
> > Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/
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> >
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-- 
Sincerely,
Ram Rachum
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