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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, John Gabriele <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm a bit confused myself... PEP-345 says it "describes a mechanism >> for adding metadata to Python packages", but I think they really mean >> "distributions" (the things available at the PyPI). > > Yes you are right, that was a mistake. I've just fixed it. Sorry, but I'm baffled. Are we really now using the word 'distribution' for those 'things available at the PyPI'? The text inside PEP-345 uses the word 'distutils project' a lot as the name for this concept. It's very common to see the word 'package' used to refer to these 'distutils projects'; but in the Python documentation we also use the word 'package' to refer to any directory having an __init__.py. Can the word 'package' be used for both concepts? Maybe a qualifier would help, like module-package and setup-package. Normally the word 'distribution' is reserved for what lands in the 'dist' directory, such as a tarball or an egg...right? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
