[Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Jul 17 13:27:01 CEST 2009


At 07:38 PM 7/17/2009 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>Whether or not the fork is friendly, it is a fork, not a 
>continuation. Also, there never really was a “setuptools 1”. I 
>think it's only going to be confusing to call this “setuptools 2”.

Definitely.  I'd really rather it not be called that, and would 
prefer that your versioning scheme not imply a continuation 
either...  *especially* if it's based on the 0.6x branch, which is 
just about a dead parrot at this point.


>So I propose the name “Red Barrel” as directly suggesting 
>packaging (barrels), and having the reference to a popular Monty 
>Python sketch — a sketch about packagee tours, hence another 
>“package” reference.

Nice. 



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