Re: Python 2/3 package naming

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:48 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On 7 December 2016 at 09:39, Jakub Jedelsky <jakub.jedelsky(a)gmail.com&gt; 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.