astropy/astropy — Issue #24: astropy != AstroPy ???
Author: mdboom
Created: 2011-10-18 19:45:08+00:00
State: open

Is there a good reason for the distutils/setuptools/egg name being different from the Python package name? It's currently defined as "AstroPy" in the setup.py.

Maybe this doesn't matter (sorry to be pedantic), but I find this confusing for the following reasons:

1) I use a tool that cleans my virtualenv by deleting packages by name -- if its name on disk is different from how it's imported I have to remember which is which

2) "pip install AstroPy" someday will confuse people

3) tarballs and installers built with distutils won't match the name of the git repository