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It took me 5 minutes to realize that this isn't PyPi the package manager but PyPy, an interpreter for python. This was very confusing, especially because they

It took me 5 minutes to realize that this isn't PyPi the package manager but PyPy, an interpreter for python. This was very confusing, especially because they mentionned pipx, which seems related to PyPi, so it was plausible this was about PyPi.

crispyambulance 2y ago
Yeah, it's like they're shooting themselves in both feet by just naming their project badly. What a pity. It could have been worse. Years ago a promising audio format was competing with mp3. It was better quality at any given compression and open source. The creators named it "Ogg Vorbis". Like some kind of dungeons and dragons character or something. I haven't seen it around for a long time, I think that's because the name was so stupid.
- mrtesthah 2y ago
  The Vorbis codec was simply not as good[1] as AAC or Opus which have since superseded it. 1. http://opus-codec.org/comparison/ http://opus-codec.org/comparison/
  - nick238 2y ago
    AAC is proprietary and Opus didn't exist before 2012. Vorbis came out in 2000. The format for audio files doesn't matter much nowadays, especially with sufficient bandwidth and most people streaming them from whatever service that uses whatever it will. In the era of Napster, those early 2000s, the formats were very front-of-mind.
    - Novosell 2y ago
      I think the developers at all those streaming services might disagree with you about file format not mattering.
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- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  Everyone laughs at Ogg Vorbis until the +3 great-axe starts swinging and you're taking an average of 2d12+16 damage per round.
- bb611 2y ago
  People would just have called it "ov" and moved on. Look around the tech ecosystem, lots of thriving projects with stupid names.
- danadam 2y ago
  > I haven't seen it around for a long time, Spotify is using it in their standalone clients.
ziml77 2y ago
PyPI is not a package manager. It's the Python Package Index (hence the capital "I"). It hosts the packages but the standard manager is pip.

crispyambulance 2y ago

Yeah, it's like they're shooting themselves in both feet by just naming their project badly. What a pity. It could have been worse. Years ago a promising audio format was competing with mp3. It was better quality at any given compression and open source. The creators named it "Ogg Vorbis". Like some kind of dungeons and dragons character or something. I haven't seen it around for a long time, I think that's because the name was so stupid.

mrtesthah 2y ago
The Vorbis codec was simply not as good[1] as AAC or Opus which have since superseded it. 1. http://opus-codec.org/comparison/ http://opus-codec.org/comparison/
- nick238 2y ago
  AAC is proprietary and Opus didn't exist before 2012. Vorbis came out in 2000. The format for audio files doesn't matter much nowadays, especially with sufficient bandwidth and most people streaming them from whatever service that uses whatever it will. In the era of Napster, those early 2000s, the formats were very front-of-mind.
  - Novosell 2y ago
    I think the developers at all those streaming services might disagree with you about file format not mattering.
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pavel_lishin 2y ago
Everyone laughs at Ogg Vorbis until the +3 great-axe starts swinging and you're taking an average of 2d12+16 damage per round.
bb611 2y ago
People would just have called it "ov" and moved on. Look around the tech ecosystem, lots of thriving projects with stupid names.
danadam 2y ago
> I haven't seen it around for a long time, Spotify is using it in their standalone clients.

ziml77 2y ago

PyPI is not a package manager. It's the Python Package Index (hence the capital "I"). It hosts the packages but the standard manager is pip.