[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Éric Araujo added the comment: The issue is moot now that packaging/distutils2 is stopped. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker _

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Westley Martínez added the comment: I think I like the term catalog myself, but I'm not wholly opposed to index. I think it is certainly better than pypi. Although the namespace does reduce the genericness of index, a lot of programmers (including me) like to use the from namespace import x m

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

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[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Éric Araujo added the comment: Fully agreed with Alexis. > index is too generic to convey any kind of meaning and can be confused--at > least for > me--with list.index. Sometimes it is better for a name to be specific. But it is specific, thanks to the use of namespaces in Python: it’s distut

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

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[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Alexis Metaireau added the comment: The problem is that PyPI isn't a good name since it's the name of ONE index. Westley, do you have any other idea? Otherwise, I think we should stick to "index", which is a good name for something that's named "index" quite everywhere already. Especially b

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Westley Martínez added the comment: -1 index is too generic to convey any kind of meaning and can be confused--atleast for me--with list.index. Sometimes it is better for a name to be specific. -- nosy: +anikom15 ___ Python tracker

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Alexis Metaireau added the comment: We are all calling these indexes quite everywhere. We are talking about a Python Package Index and even the mirroring infrastructure is talking about indexes. Because that's under the "packaging" namespace, it's kind of obvious that this deals with indexes

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Éric Araujo added the comment: We could use “catalog” (see how the interest group for PyPI is named catalog-sig), but it sounds a bit abstract to me, and at the same time fails to convey that this module deals with finding things (in an index/catalog) and also download them (from PyPI or thir

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

Hynek Schlawack added the comment: While I can see your point, I think that "index" is way too generic. I also think that the pypi term is overloaded with both meanings. -- nosy: +hynek ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14974] rename packaging.pypi to packaging.index

New submission from Alexis Metaireau : PyPI is the name of a particular index, whereas "index" is a generic term. So ISTM that it would be better to use the latter, semantically-wise. -- assignee: alexis components: Distutils2 messages: 162027 nosy: alexis, tarek priority: normal severi