Re: Re: Opinions on name for PyPI

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Brendan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like wxPython.  wxPython 4.0 works for me also.
>

they are the same thing :-)

I think Robi is currently proposing:

wxPython -- version 4.*

rather than making the version part of the name: wxPython4

so one would go to PyPi or whereever and look for wxPython, and probably do:

pip install wxpython

or

pip install wxpython>=4

would get you Phoenix, and

pip install wxpython<4

would get you "Classic" -- if it worked at all.

Similarly for conda.

The only reason I can see from moving away from the well known wxPython
> brand, is if the brand sucks or has baggage.
>

I think the brand is strong, but does now have some baggage, due to
late-coming support for Python3

But I think that will go away fast once we get wxPython 4.0 released!

Who is your target audience?  Who are you trying to attract?
>
>    - Existing wxPython users?
>    - Uses of other GUI frameworks?
>    - New users with looking for their first GUI framework?
>
> All of the above? I think if it was only new users, then we couldn't not
worry about the version confusion, etc, and could even have a new name.

But there is a LOT of history here -- second to Numeric, wxPython is the
key package that brought me to Python over 15 years ago!


NOTE, there should probably be something like:

wx.wxWidgets_version

Available in the package if we are going to de-couple the wxPython and
wxWidgets version numbers.

-CHB


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