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

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 18:05:50 CEST 2009

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

- The code is splitted in many packages and might be distributed under several distributions. - distribute.resources: that's the old pkgresources...

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

Because "pkg_resources" belongs to 0.6 and we want 0.7 to be installable alongside 0.6 if needed.

Now as I said earlier, this package might shrink once PEP 376 is finished, and have bits included in pkgutil.

- 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...

What do you call 'core' ? distutils.core ?

If yes, why does it belong to core ? entrypoint is a standalon plugin system .

- 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?

We are keeping a "distribute." namespace for all bits.

Now maybe one day it'll make it into Distutils, yes. But not now.

Also, have a look at PEP 381 (mirroring infratructure for PyPI)

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.

Regards, Tarek

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