On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:09, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> writes: > >> If you say "I need to install this package" it may technically be >> unclear if you mean the package "foo.bar" or the distribution >> "foo.bar-3.6.tgz", but that difference is not in that case >> significant. Installing the distribution and installing the package is >> in that case the same thing. > > That case is far from the only one to consider, though.
And I never said it was. I said that it's not a big problem because in most cases the terminology mixup does not result in any practical confusion. And I stand by that. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
