On Jul 14, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > no reason not to change "Package" to "Distribution" now, right? > this (http://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html) already uses the > "Distribution" word. > which means changing sentences like "There are currently 32660 packages > here." to "There are currently 32660 distributions here." > and the main table listing would use the word "Distribution" > >
That's 32600 projects, There are almost 200k distributions. And the main table listing would be "Releases" or "Project Releases". > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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