[Distutils] Splitting distribute in several distributions

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Aug 12 14:14:26 CEST 2009


On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:51 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:

> Looking at PyPI, there seems to be no clear standard on this, though  
> I would say 60% of distribution names are in lower case. Is there a  
> PEP that makes any recommendations either way?

I don't think so, but clearly PEP 8 recommends package names be  
lowercase and it just seems easier to name the distribution the same  
way.  Actually, I'm not even sure what "distribution name" means  
otherwise <wink>.

-Barry

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