Richard Terry

Bah. Realised someone named their project Mara, 2 years after I published to pypi, and has spent 5 years polluting the namespace: https://pypi.org/search/?q=mara

I was planning on releasing mara-* packages, but now it feels like I have to pick a new name to avoid confusion for my users and theirs.

But I like my name. I wrote the first version on my phone on a bus when travelling around Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, and named it after this mara I saw in Copan.

Hardest problem in coding. Bah.

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Show threadRichard TerryNov 18, 2022
To be fair to them, looks like they've put a lot of work into their project over the past 5 years, and they've got more github stars than all my projects combined - but still, feels like poor form to do it without trying to get in touch with me first.