[Distutils] Splitting distribute in several distributions

[Alex Grönholm]

Barry Warsaw kirjoitti:
> 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>.
>
I don't see any connection between conventions for package names and 
conventions for distribution names. As for what "distribution name" 
means, the distutils documentation explains the difference between 
distributions and packages:
http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-specific-terminology
Note that all referenced distributions there have camelCase names.
> -Barry
>