Re: psycopg is the new psycopg3?

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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