On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The only inconsistency, I think, is that operating systems like Debian >> refer to their software distributions as "packages" (as in, a packaged >> up piece of software that you can download and install). "Packages" is >> a great name for them -- too bad it's already being used in Python. > > I believe that's basically where the confusion comes from.
Whoops. Just noticed that the front page of the PyPI says: > "There are currently 8614 packages here." (is that 8614 packages or 8614 distributions?) and, > "To submit a package use "python setup.py upload" and to use a package from > this index either "pip install package" or download, unpack and "python > setup.py install" it." and > "# Browse the tree of packages # Submit package information" ---John _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig