although some of the uses could be argued as needing "Project" e.g "Package documentation is hosted on its own domain"
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:29 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" > > > > 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 >> >> >
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