varinfo() clashes with InteractiveUtils.varinfo()

[alyst]

Unless there are better ideas, I suggest to rename it into variatinfo(), because varinfo really sounds like some information about a variable. What should be the roadmap for renaming? Introduce the new name and deprecate varinfo() in the next minor release, then remove varinfo() after some period of time (6 month or so)?

cc @ararslan

[ararslan]

Hm. I'm not crazy about variatinfo. Perhaps something like infovariation or even sharedinfodist?

[wildart]

infovariation 👍

[alyst]

sharedinfodist :+1: I'd rather avoid abbreviation, so what about sharedinfodistance or sharedinfometric?

I was also thinking about infovariation, but IMHO "shared info metric/distance" describes this function much better than "variation of information" (I find this choice of the term rather arbitrary), and I'm not sure we want to promote yet another vague generic name ("information variation") for this function.