[Distutils] conventions or best practice to choose package names?

[martin at v.loewis.de]

> Lately, I've gotten the impression that people are rejecting the use
> of namespace packages altogether. There's an incorrect notion that
> namespace packages are an invention of setuptools.  I think this is
> unfortunate.

Indeed, it's unfortunate. It took me some time to discover that (presumably)
the original idea was first formulated in

https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2002-December/004251.html

I'd be curious to know whether there is an even earlier (public) discussion
of namespace packages.

Regards,
Martin