On 11/10/20 9:12 AM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have received some concerned voices in regard to have a package called
> "psycopg3". I guess many have been burned out by the Python 2 to 3
> transition, and now it's not a happy pair of number to see next to each
> other. Sorry, Fibonacci...
>
> The rationale behind having the 2 in the package name was to allow the
> coexistence between v1 and 2. But now that nobody uses v1 anymore, I
> think the name can be considered free. I believe it even predates pypi
> and the requirements.txt convention. Dark times...
>
> Anyone against using "psycopg" as package name, and starting from 3 as
> version number?
Yes.
1) "psycopg" is widely used as an alias for psycopg2, so that will cause
confusion.
2) I see a lot of explaining why the order of versions is psycopg2, psycopg.
3) People don't seem to be confused that you can use psycopg2 with both
Python 2 and 3.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Daniele
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