change default name of project

[eriktks]

Currently cookiecutter poposes my-python-project as project name when asking for the name. I would be more helpful for the user to have the package name as default.

This is the current output of cookiecutter:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/nlesc/python-template.git
package_name [my_python_package]: ThisIsMyPreferredPackageName
project_name [my-python-project]: 

The second question of cookiecutter confuses me. I presume that the package is the name of the future directory with my stuff on Github and the project name is the name in the main heading in the README file? I am not sure but if that assumption is correct these two will often be the same, at least for me. In that case I would like cookiecutter to propose the entered package name as project name, like this:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/nlesc/python-template.git
package_name [my_python_package]: ThisIsMyPreferredPackageName
project_name [ThisIsMyPreferredPackageName]: 

This helps the confused user who still might not know the difference between a package and a project but at least does not have to think about whether their names can be the same or should be different.

[jspaaks]

To me it seems like a bad idea to use the same name for conceptually different things. People use different names for things so they can tell them apart.

Users who are confused should take a peek at the directory tree from the README

my-python-project/
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── CITATION.cff
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── docs
│   ├── conf.py
│   ├── index.rst
│   ├── make.bat
│   ├── Makefile
│   ├── _static
│   │   └── theme_overrides.css
│   └── _templates
├── LICENSE
├── MANIFEST.in
├── my_python_package
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── my_module.py
│   └── __version__.py
├── NOTICE
├── project_setup.md
├── README.md
├── setup.cfg
├── setup.py
└── tests
    ├── __init__.py
    └── test_my_module.py

[fdiblen]

• Rename project_name as directory_name.
• Change the order of the questions for package_name and directory_name.
  1. directory_name
  2. package_name
• Explain where directory_name is used
• Point to the https://github.com/NLeSC/python-template#step-33-read-about-what-was-just-generated in the last column of the table

[fdiblen]

fixed in #278