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Is this value only used by setuptools? If not I could see it causing unusual side-effects...
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it is my understanding that this is only used in setuptools/distutils
I would be greatly appreciative of supporting information for this assertion, i would like to minimise unwanted consequences
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@marqh the best I can come up with after quite a lot of looking is the first parargraph in this section, which is still far from definitive...
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this 'name' appears in the folder structure of the installation via setuptools, e.g.:
>>> import iris; iris
<module 'iris' from '/home/h04/itmh/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iris_scitools-1.12.0.dev0-py2.7.egg/iris/__init__.pyc'>
and in the PKG-INFO
Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: iris-scitools
Version: 1.12.0.dev0
Summary: Data interoperability library
Home-page: http://scitools.org.uk/iris/
Author: UK Met Office
Author-email: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scitools-iris
License: LGPLv3
Description: Data interoperability library for meteorological and
oceanographic data formats, providing
data analysis and visualisation capabilities
Platform: any
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I think I prefer iris-scitools. If I was searching for this, I would feel more like I had found what I was looking for this way round than the other way around.
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My vote is for scitools-iris, because that's how we always refer to Iris if we need to make it clear it's the SciTools package called Iris, such as we need to here. We've even used this name for Iris elsewhere in this PR...
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If there's no practical reason to prefer one or the other, I prefer scitools-iris.
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there appears to be something of a L:R split here
I think that the practical aspect of iris appearing at the start of the string should carry the day, e.g.
If the packages were sorted alphabetically, and someone looked for iris they'd find iris-scitools nearby.
Although scitools-iris might feel more natural to some developers, I think for the 'i want to find a package' use case which pypi addresses, iris-scitools appears more practical to me
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I'd go for scitools-iris as per PEP0423 (note: PEP status=deferred, but it does give some compelling evidence)
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an update to the setup to change the 'name' of the package to
iris-scitoolsto enable registry in pypiwe were exploring this years ago and have just been reminded of the request #606
uploading v1.12 won't work, as it clashes with the already registered
Iris, but we can be ready for the next release