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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: psycopg is the new psycopg3?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:59:58 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:12 PM Daniele Varrazzo
<[email protected]> 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?

This is a not entirely unsimilar case to what pgAdmin4 is going
through right now (they started with pgadmin4 version 1.0, which then
led to a lot of confusion for people).

Thus, regardless of if you call it psycopg or psycopg3, please make
sure you start with version 3 :)

-- 
 Magnus Hagander
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