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Author benoitbryon
Recipients benoitbryon, docs@python
Date 2012-05-24.12:42:05
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Content 
Scope:

* Python documentation lacks conventions, or at least guidelines,
  to choose a name for a package.

* Python has tools to create and distribute packages.
  Not covered by this issue.

* Python has tools to create namespace packages.
  Not covered by this issue.

* Python has conventions about "syntax" of module names in PEP 8.
  Not covered by this issue.

Goal: add guidelines+conventions about package names in Doc/packaging/

Discussion started at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2012-May/018551.html

Jim Fulton said in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2012-May/018553.html:

> +1 for an official document (or addition to an existinhg document)
     providing a rational for namespace packages and their naming

Here is a ticket where proposals can be referenced.

Contributions can be pushed on the "doc-package-naming-conventions" branch of https://bitbucket.org/benoitbryon/cpython
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