Opinions on name for PyPI

wxPython Dev
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I like wxPython. wxPython 4.0 works for me also.

they are the same thing :slight_smile:

I think Robi is currently proposing:

wxPython -- version 4.*

rather than making the version part of the name: wxPython4

so one would go to PyPi or whereever and look for wxPython, and probably do:

pip install wxpython

or

pip install wxpython>=4

would get you Phoenix, and

pip install wxpython<4

would get you "Classic" -- if it worked at all.

Similarly for conda.

The only reason I can see from moving away from the well known wxPython

brand, is if the brand sucks or has baggage.

I think the brand is strong, but does now have some baggage, due to
late-coming support for Python3

But I think that will go away fast once we get wxPython 4.0 released!

Who is your target audience? Who are you trying to attract?

   - Existing wxPython users?
   - Uses of other GUI frameworks?
   - New users with looking for their first GUI framework?

All of the above? I think if it was only new users, then we couldn't not

worry about the version confusion, etc, and could even have a new name.

But there is a LOT of history here -- second to Numeric, wxPython is the
key package that brought me to Python over 15 years ago!

NOTE, there should probably be something like:

wx.wxWidgets_version

Available in the package if we are going to de-couple the wxPython and
wxWidgets version numbers.

-CHB

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Chris Barker wrote:

Yes. In fact the changes are already made in my repo, see the release-prep branch at https://github.com/RobinD42/Phoenix

That’s a good idea. I’ll add it this evening.

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On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Brendan brendanjsimon@gmail.com wrote:

I like wxPython. wxPython 4.0 works for me also.

they
are the same thing :slight_smile:

I think Robi is currently proposing:

wxPython – version 4.*

rather
than making the version part of the name: wxPython4

NOTE, there should probably be something like:

wx.wxWidgets_version

Available
in the package if we are going to de-couple the wxPython and wxWidgets version numbers.

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Stick with simple stupid “wxPython”. Probably bump the RELz version to 4.0 or whatever.

pip install wxPython

wx.wxWidgetsVersion() function +1

my 2 cents…