[py-dev] renaming py and py.test, worth it?

[holger krekel]

Hi Frederik, Sridhar, all,

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:59 +0100, Frederik Dohr wrote:
> > I won't mind at this.
> 
> Ditto - it might be a bit of a hassle for users, but shouldn't be too 
> painful by the sound of it.

It does affect lots of already written code so it has a cost. 

> > provide DeprecationWarning in the next few releases before doing a rename
> 
> Would the current package disappear from PyPI eventually? I imagine it's 
> possible that someone returns to maintain a package after a few years of 
> inactivity - if py.test was nowhere to be found then, it might be quite 
> discouraging. (Perhaps that concern is excessive, but worth considering 
> at least.)

valid concern.  I think the "py" package would remain at PYPI 
but depend and strongly point to the other ones. 

best,
holger