Brad Allen wrote:
This quote is taken from the distutils thread "current preferred way
to specify dependencies? future?",
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?
We should use the terminology as defined in
http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-specific-terminology
So technically it's a "module distribution" we're talking about.
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