On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:13 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7 December 2016 at 13:07, Jakub Jedelsky <jakub.jedelsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:48:55AM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:48 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On 7 December 2016 at 09:39, Jakub Jedelsky <jakub.jedelsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> Hi there,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm maintainer of vertica-python package and want to add support for
>>> >> python3, but I'm a little bit lost in naming.
>>> >>
>>> >> I named package as a upstream 'vertica-python', because (if I remember
>>> >> correctly) naming guidelines told, that if upstream has 'python' in
>>> >> the name it should stay there (can't found the source now). But how
>>> >> should I name python3 package? Should it be 'python3-vertica-python'
>>> >> od 'vertica-python3'?
>>> >>
>>> >> Or should I rename package to python{3,2}-vertica and obsolete
>>> >> vertica-python?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Well the name in setup.py is vertica-python and it installs as
>>> > vertica_python and the pip install is that as well.
>>> >
>>> > So according to the guidelines I'd expect it to by
>>> > python2-vertica-python and python3-vertica-python even if it sounds a
>>> > little awkward, best way to handle anything that might end up
>>> > depending on it etc
>>> IMO this is worst thing. I think having pythonX-vertica is better.
>>
>> I just sniffed around repos and found just one package with a weird
>> name - it's python3-python-etcd. On the other hand I found a few, which
>> are in style <name>-python3, e.g. abrt-python3, libvirt-python3. So it
>> looks, that this naming should be quite good.
>>
>
>
> Those two examples are probably wrong:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuidelines
>
> Also you should read:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python
>
> according to that python{2,3}-vertica-python ought to be correct
That should probably be slightly revisited, as now that we offer
automatically generated Provides of the PyPI name with
"python<pyver>dist(<modulename>)" form, we should start having a more
consistent scheme for Python packages.
Unless there's some kind of naming conflict, I'd call it pythonX-vertica.
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