On March 24, 2011, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Bob learns about the Cheeseshop [2]_, and adds some > > simple packaging using classic distutils so that he can upload *The > > Bob Package* to the Cheeseshop. > I know that the referenced PEP 345 call these things “software > packages”, but let’s try to use consistent terminology. See threads > starting at > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2011-March/017438.html > and http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2011-March/017450.html .
Éric, can you summarize the discussion that took place on these threads? As far as I can tell, no consensus was reached for a new terminology and so the old definition still prevails: http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/introduction#concepts-terminology In that case, a "package" in PEP 396 would refer to: a module that contains other modules; typically contained in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other directories by the presence of a file __init__.py. I fell like the usage proposed for *The Bob Package* is pretty good, except for the choice of "upload". Of course, you don't upload the package, you upload "distributions" that contain that package. -- Yannick Gingras http://ygingras.net
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