On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:01, Glyph Lefkowitz <[email protected]> > wrote: >> This is precisely what I meant to recommend: "Parcel" would be a good >> replacement word for the Python-specific meaning of "distribution". I'm >> sorry if I was ambiguous and created confusion. > > I think it sounds too much like a python-specific word, like "egg". > People would be lead to believe that "parcels" meant a particular > format. It would be a great name for a python specific package format > though, but I think eggs have got the mindshare there already. :)
I had thought 'egg' was just another distribution format, an alternative to tarball, etc. But I have heard people at my local user group use it to mean 'module distribution'. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
