Re: 'pydo' as package name for PyDO2

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Hamish Lawson wrote:
> Jacob Smullyan wrote:
> 
> >Now, "pydo" would be my first choice, except that PyDO1 may currently
> >be in use on case-insensitive platforms, and then there would be a
> >conflict, presumably.  Is this important to anybody?  If there were a
> >conflict, it could be resolved by renaming PyDO1 to "PyDO1".
> 
> I think we can resolve the name conflict while avoiding the potential 
> code breakage of renaming "PyDO" to "PyDO1". Instead we can take 
> advantage of Python 2.3's ability to import from zip files and the fact 
> that the contents of a zip file are case-sensitive regardless of the 
> platform. Supplying PyDO 1 and PyDO 2 as zip files allows those on 
> case-insensitive platforms such as Windows to have both installed 
> without conflict, as demonstrated by my test below:
> 
> >>> import pydo
> Hello from pydo
> >>> import PyDO
> Hello from PyDO
> >>>

Very clever.  "pydo" it is, then.

j

-- 
Jacob Smullyan

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