Replace the name from ld to.. something else?

[nir0s]

I've gotten feedback regarding the fact that ld was a misleading name for this package several times from colleagues and I tend to agree. While I was trying to provide a short name for people to easily identify, it doesn't provide information regarding its purpose (much like a badly named variable).

I want the name distro.. but apparently it's already taken by another initial implementation of the same functionality.

Maybe "dist" as a name for this instead as it will be natural to write:

import dist

dist.id()
dist.info()
...

thoughts?

[nir0s]

#104 covers this. Of course, we'll have to replace the name of the repo, some more stuff in the readme and rtfd stuff.. but we should discuss if this is at all something we want or not.

[andy-maier]

I think this is a good idea.

[encukou]

dist could be seen as short for "distribution", which is the Python term for a particular release of a project. See or example PEP 435.
I wonder if it'd be possible for you to join forces with @MartijnBraam and use distro as the name.

[MartijnBraam]

This looks exactly like what I'm trying to do with distro.

[andy-maier]

I looked at your distro project, and that's what I think, too.
Why don't you have a look at the code of this project here, and see whether you like it. :-)

[andy-maier]

I thought I should throw this in: How about making the name independent of Linux terminology, so that it can be extended for other OS types in the future?
e.g. "osinfo"

[MartijnBraam]

osinfo is already taken on pypi, operatingsystem is still available.

It's a shame that os is taken...