Why the name "mllaunchpad" and not the more conventional "ml-launchpad"?

[schuderer]

Usually, python distributions use a hyphen - to separate words. Why does ML Launchpad stick everything together? People that are used to the hyphen convention might try (and fail) to install ml-launchpad.

[schuderer]

It was a tough choice to deviate from the convention, but using mllaunchpad has (in our opinion) the smallest chance for mistakes.

We want the same name for the installable package (distribution) and the importable package.

We observed how particularly new Python users struggle with this. They find a code snippet that has an import awesome_package in it, and subsequently run pip install awesome_package (instead of pip install awesome-package). Or that they see code with import slack in it and actually install the wrong package with pip install slack.

I personally am used to this convention. But we observed this mistake several times already, and this is a compromise which doesn't require renaming the complete ML Launchpad project.

Edit: We are planning to use a hyphen to separate ML Launchpad related distributions, e.g. mllaunchpad-spark (which will be separate packages, published and installable separately from core mllaunchpad).