[Nexus-developers] Naming of the python modules

[Ray Osborn]

Carlos,
Thanks for the quick feedback, which raises a couple of excellent points. Actually, there are several projects on the PyPI site with the name nexus, so I guess that, like trademarks, it is only a problem if there is likely to be confusion. My problem with 'nxs' is just that it is arbitrary. It doesn't appear to be used by any other bindings and the format looks less coherent when there is no coherent naming scheme.

Backward compatibility is, of course, important, which is why I wrote my last email about the tree interface. I presume any change like this would require the approval of the tech committee.

Ray

On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Carlos Pascual wrote:

> Even if I woud also like to us "import nexus", I don't think it is a good idea 
> to change now
> It would create serious backward incompatibilities unless you keep both names 
> (which is technically difficult to do well).
> 
> And, most important, a nexus python module is already registered in PyPi: 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-nexus/0.7
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carlos
> 
> On Tuesday, 20 of December, 2011 16:38:07 Ray Osborn wrote:
>> Hopefully, you got my message to the NeXus Mailing List concerning the
>> revised tree API. As a follow-up, I would like to change the name of the
>> module from 'nxs' to 'nexus' if there are no objections. It's a minor
>> point, but I would prefer to do 'import nexus' and it would probably make
>> more sense and be more memorable to the average user. I don't think we
>> have a coherent naming scheme for all the different language bindings and
>> I'm not sure that 'nxs' is used anywhere else.
>> 
>> Could the developers who were involved in the relevant discussions let me
>> know if there was a good reason for not using 'nexus', such as concerns
>> over name clashes with other projects. There isn't another nexus in the
>> Enthought distribution, so it doesn't look like it should be a problem.
>> 
>> With regards,
>> Ray
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