On Jul 14, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Donald: > thoughts on changing our use of "Package" on pypi to "Distribution"? (except > for the title of course) > If we're not going to do that, we should explain and bless the double use of > "Package" and drop using "Distribution" in any docs. > Our fundamental concepts shouldn't be confusing and conflicted. > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW, I'm sick and tired of agonising every time I use the word "package" over > whether I should be "correct" and use "distribution". Can the guide just come > right out and bless the occasionally-ambiguous but commonly-used dual nature > of the word "package"? If not, can people start actually *using* > "distribution" consistently for what pip downloads and installs, so I can > find a few more examples for me to copy when I end up with awkward phrases > like "distributing your distribution"...? (You'd never believe English was my > native language, would you? :-)) > > I hear you. I feel the same agony. It think we should use the word > "Distribution", but it's hard to compete when PyPI uses "Package". > Nick, what do we do? : ) > > Marcus > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
PyPI will eventually move to using the definitions as defined in PEP426 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/#supporting-definitions . ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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