[Distutils] Sooner or later, we're going to have to be more formal about how we name packages.

[Jim Fulton]

In the Python community, we've been pretty laid back
about how we name packages.  When we were small, this made
sense.  It doesn't make sense any more.

We should not have to come up with a process for recognizing squatters
on simple package names.  We should have something more systematic,
IMO.

Unfortunately, I think the sanest way of avoiding most package
name issues is to base them on domains, as is done in the Java
world.  This goes against the Python philosophy of preferring
flat to nested, but I still think it's better than trying to police squatters,
or to encouraging races to claim top-level names.

For a while, many of us have been pretty careful to use namespaces
for new packages to mitigate this issue.  For example, the zc namespace
is a shorter version of com.zope, but at some point, it won't be fair
for us to claim zc for ourselves.

Jim

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