[Python-Dev] Bits-of-Distribute naming (original) (raw)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Oct 9 17:42:04 CEST 2009


Tarek Ziadé wrote:

- The code is splitted in many packages and might be distributed under several distributions.

- distribute.resources: that's the old pkgresources, but reorganized in clean, pep-8 modules. This package will only contain the query APIs and will focus on being PEP 376 compatible. We will promote its usage and see if Pip wants to use it as a basis. And maybe PyPM once it's open source ? ( ). It will probably shrink a lot though, once the stdlib provides PEP 376 support.

Why not just call it pkg_resources and/or merge it with pkgutil to get it into the python stdlib?

- distribute.entrypoints: that's the old pkgresources 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...

- distribute.index: that's packageindex 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?

- distribute.core (might be renamed to main): that's everything else, and uses the other packages.

...which would be left, and could just be called "distribute".

cheers,

Chris

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