[Pythonmac-SIG] PackMan->ChapMan

[Kevin Altis]

> From: Kevin Ollivier
>
> I personally like Package Manager. I don't think the name is boring, in
> the sense that when someone hears of something called "Python Package
> Manager" I think their reaction will be "Cool, where can I get it?!"
> ;-) In this particular case, Package Manager so accurately sums up its
> purpose that it seems the natural choice.

+1

Package Manager is a tool that doesn't need a clever name. It will just
confuse users to call it Chapman.

ka

> Kevin
>
> On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 06:28  PM, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> > it's late, but I'd like to share this one. One of the non-issues
> > that's been bothering me with Package Manager was the name, as you
> > know. Package Manager is boring, pimp got voted down, PackMan is
> > already taken...
> >
> > Then at a hunch I picked up the dictionary, and it turns out the
> > (old-)english word for a traveling salesman in assorted wares
> > ("marskramer" for those who speak dutch) is: "Chapman".
> >
> > What do you think?
> > --
> > - Jack Jansen        <Jack.Jansen at oratrix.com>
> > http://www.cwi.nl/~jack -
> > - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma
> > Goldman -