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A lot of projects’ names conflict. That’s not an issue if they’re not in the same space, which is the case here: a CLI tests tool vs. a messaging application.

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Python tox first released was in 2010. Tox project started in 2013. I hope in the future authors of open source projects would do some Googling before deciding on name. The reason is people really get confused which one.

Imagine this situation. Instead of tox, someone decided to named the tox project "Python". Tox is very famous in the Python community. This shows how unfortunate people doesn't care about naming.

I only need a couple tests to check if my python is still alive. no need for any fancy tooling

Have you ever shipped a python? It is best to isolate it and its dependencies otherwise unexpected things happen.

Specially since is so easy to make it unique enough, like calling it toxx or toxprotocol.

True, being not in the same namespace resolves the confusion. But a decent chunk of people on this forum might end up using both (assuming the chat application takes off). If it's humanly possible, avoid name collision.

I'll stop belabouring the point.

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