[Urwid] Renaming Urwid and splitting up the repo

Daniel Holth dholth at fastmail.fm
Mon Sep 15 14:04:57 EDT 2008


Zeth escribió:
> 2008/9/14 Ian Ward <ian at excess.org>:
>   
>> I am planning to rename Urwid to either conui or consoleui.
>>     
>
> I always liked the name Urwid, but I understand that functional names
> are often more practical. Your idea of consoleui seems fine, maybe
> another idea would be the Console Tool Kit i.e. CTK? Like GTK but for
> the console.
>
> A more controversial idea would be to try to make a console UI that
> could eventually be added to the Python Standard library, as the
> existing console stuff there is particularly woeful.
>   
I agree. I don't think anyone is using a similar Python console GUI 
library because otherlib has a better name. When I checked several years 
ago, urwid had no direct competition. You could just parameterize it and 
allow people to set the name to anything they wanted with a setup.py 
variable. :-)




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