[Distutils] Why github and bitbucket?

[Paul Eipper]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Basically: Historical reasons. The name “PyPA” was a joke by the
>> pip/virtualenv developers and it was only pip and virtualenv so it was on
>> Github.
>
>
> here's an anecdote.... per the pypa.io history page,  'Other proposed names
> were “ianb-ng”, “cabal”, “pack” and “Ministry of Installation”'
>
> https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/history/
>
> maybe even funnier that we have a history page, but it's easy to forget all
> that's happened, so I made one awhile back...
>

Oh man, too bad “Ministry of Installation” was not chosen, my favorite!

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Paul Eipper