[pybsddb] Request for comments: Renaming the project
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Mon Nov 9 23:20:46 CET 2020
On 09Nov2020 15:09, Michał Górny <mgorny at gentoo.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 14:50 +0100, Jesus Cea wrote:
>> For ages this project was called "bsddb3". This was confusing after
>> Python 3 dawn because "bsddb3" seems to be the Python 3 version of
>> "bsddb" and that is not the case.
>>
>> I am about to release a Python 3 *ONLY* of this project. I don't want to
>> call it "bsddb3" because it would break Python 2 installations.
I recommend a dummy, unchanged, release of the old package too with its
README explaining clearly where to get the new package for modern Python
3. To aid those still finding the old package.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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