[Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>   - distribute.entrypoints: that's the old pkg_resources entry points
>>> system, but on its own. it uses distribute.resources
>> Why not get it into the core as distutils.entrypoints? That's where it
>> belongs...
> 
> What do you call 'core' ? distutils.core ?

Sorry, mean stdlib. distutils.entrypoints would seem to be the sensible 
place.

>>>   - distribute.index: that's package_index and a few other things.
>>> everything required to interact with PyPI. We will promote
>>>     its usage and see if Pip wants to use it as a basis.
>> Why not call in "pypi.client" and "pypi.server" or, better yet, get it into
>> the stdlib as disutils.index.client distutils.index.server?
> 
> We are keeping a "distribute." namespace for all bits.

Why?

> In any case, the splitting is occuring *now* and is not written in the stone,
> so we can talk about this in Distutils-SIG, and improve it with your feedback.

Shame there hasn't been any discussion of this recently on distutils-sig...

Chris

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