[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Oct 8 17:03:28 CEST 2010

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:26:36 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

>- query pypi >- browse what's installed >- install/remove projects >- create releases and upload them > >pkgmanager ?

No underscores, please. :) Actually, a decent wrapper script could just be called 'setup'. My command-not-found on Ubuntu doesn't find a collision, or even close similarities.

pysetup perhaps? I think "setup" is such a generic name that being a Python-specific tool sounds wrong. I also had that reaction towards easy_install at the beginning.

I still like 'egg' as a command too. There are no collisions that I can see. I know this has been thrown around for years, and it's always been rejected because I think setuptools wanted to claim it, but since it still doesn't exist afaict, distutils2 could easily use it.

'egg' is already the name of a file format, so re-using that name for something more general would be confusing. What would you think if 'tar' allowed you to resize JPEGs? :)

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