Re: Opinions on name for PyPI

It may seem obvious, but if wxPython is retained as the name, then there 
must be a way to distinguish "Classic" from "Phoenix" as there are many 
incompatible changes in the API. Since the import name "wx" is the same for 
the two versions,  and both use the major version number of "3", the string 
'phoenix'  in wx.PlatformInfo is useful at run time.  Changes to the import 
name from "wx" would be a huge change in API (please don't!) and removing 
'phoenix" from wx.PlatformInfo would effectively change the API (so, please 
keep that!).

But those are not helpful when knowing which incarnation is to be installed 
for an application. I don't think bumping the version number from wxPython 
3.0 to wxPython 3.1 will be sufficient to signify the magnitude of the 
change between the two versions.  Changing the package name would.    Many 
projects change name on large rewrites (numeric became numpy) and some do 
it even without large rewrites or API changes (ipython is now jupyter).    

If wxPython is kept, please call it wxPython 4.


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