Rename PyPI distribution: informix-db → informix-driver

PyPI rejected `informix-db` as too similar to legacy `informixdb` (v2.5,
2008). Renamed distribution to `informix-driver`. Import name stays
`informix_db` — same separation Pillow uses with `import PIL`.

Updated:
- pyproject.toml [project].name
- README pip-install command + brief explanation note
- docs-site quickstart, vs-ifxpy, wtf, Hero install commands

First PyPI release: pypi.org/project/informix-driver/2026.5.8/

README.md

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ Pure-Python driver for IBM Informix IDS, speaking the SQLI wire protocol over ra
 To our knowledge this is the **first pure-socket Informix driver in any language** — every other Informix driver (`IfxPy`, the legacy `informixdb`, ODBC bridges, JPype/JDBC, Perl `DBD::Informix`) wraps either IBM's CSDK or the JDBC JAR.
 
 ```bash
-pip install informix-db
+pip install informix-driver
 ```
 
-Requires Python ≥ 3.10.
+Imports as `informix_db` (the distribution name is `informix-driver` because the legacy `informixdb` package on PyPI from 2008 reserves close-by names — same separation Pillow uses with `import PIL`). Requires Python ≥ 3.10.
 
 ## Status
 
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ These results are reproducible from `tests/benchmarks/compare/` — the Dockerfi
 
 Full methodology, IQR caveats, install gauntlet, and reproduction in [`tests/benchmarks/compare/README.md`](https://git.supported.systems/warehack.ing/informix-db/src/branch/main/tests/benchmarks/compare/README.md).
 
-A note on IfxPy's install gauntlet: getting it to run on a modern system requires Python ≤ 3.11, setuptools <58, permissive CFLAGS, manual download of a 92 MB ODBC tarball, four `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` directories, and `libcrypt.so.1` (deprecated 2018, missing on Arch / Fedora 35+ / RHEL 9). `informix-db`'s install: `pip install informix-db`.
+A note on IfxPy's install gauntlet: getting it to run on a modern system requires Python ≤ 3.11, setuptools <58, permissive CFLAGS, manual download of a 92 MB ODBC tarball, four `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` directories, and `libcrypt.so.1` (deprecated 2018, missing on Arch / Fedora 35+ / RHEL 9). `informix-db`'s install: `pip install informix-driver`.
 
 ## Standards & guarantees
 

docs-site/src/components/Hero.astro

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
       <a class="secondary" href="/start/vs-ifxpy/">Compared to IfxPy</a>
       <a class="secondary" href="https://github.com/rsp2k/informix-db">GitHub</a>
     </div>
-    <div class="ifx-hero__install">pip install informix-db</div>
+    <div class="ifx-hero__install">pip install informix-driver</div>
   </div>
 
   <div class="ifx-hero__visual">

docs-site/src/content/docs/start/quickstart.mdx

@@ -20,17 +20,17 @@ This page gets you from a clean Python environment to a working query against a
 <Tabs>
   <TabItem label="uv (recommended)">
 ```bash
-uv add informix-db
+uv add informix-driver
 ```
   </TabItem>
   <TabItem label="pip">
 ```bash
-pip install informix-db
+pip install informix-driver
 ```
   </TabItem>
   <TabItem label="poetry">
 ```bash
-poetry add informix-db
+poetry add informix-driver
 ```
   </TabItem>
 </Tabs>

docs-site/src/content/docs/start/vs-ifxpy.mdx

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ cur.executemany(
 
 ```dockerfile
 FROM python:3.13-slim
-RUN pip install informix-db
+RUN pip install informix-driver
 ```
 
 IfxPy's deployment surface is dramatically larger:
@@ -146,4 +146,4 @@ Use IfxPy when:
 - You're running large analytical SELECTs and the 5–15% decode-side gap matters
 - You're constrained to Python ≤ 3.11 anyway
 
-For everything else — the cost-benefit favors `pip install informix-db`.
+For everything else — the cost-benefit favors `pip install informix-driver`.

docs-site/src/content/docs/start/wtf.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The IBM Informix Client SDK (CSDK), now packaged as part of OneDB Client, is a 9
 - Four `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` directories
 - `libcrypt.so.1` — deprecated in 2018, missing on Arch, Fedora 35+, RHEL 9
 
-For containerized deployments, ETL pipelines, FastAPI services, or anywhere Python lives and IBM's C SDK is friction, the friction compounds. `informix-db`'s install is `pip install informix-db`. The wheel is ~50 KB. There are zero runtime dependencies.
+For containerized deployments, ETL pipelines, FastAPI services, or anywhere Python lives and IBM's C SDK is friction, the friction compounds. `informix-db`'s install is `pip install informix-driver` (`import informix_db` — the distribution name dodges PyPI's 2008-vintage `informixdb` package, the import name is what you'd expect). The wheel is ~50 KB. There are zero runtime dependencies.
 
 ## What it does
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [project]
-name = "informix-db"
+name = "informix-driver"
 version = "2026.05.08"
 description = "Pure-Python driver for IBM Informix IDS — speaks the SQLI wire protocol over raw sockets. No CSDK, no JVM, no native libraries."
 readme = "README.md"