[issue13408] Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: MvL also thought the “resources” term to be non-obvious: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063966.html Other people mentioned its prior use within the Mac, the X system or Web frameworks. Someone mentioned “assets” in the game industry (also vague in my opinion). One con for “data” is that people may think it refers to files created by a program in the user home directory. After reading this, I’m -0 rather than -1 on “resources”, and +0.5 on “data files”. Whatever we decide, I strongly think all the code should use only one name (install_xxx command, dist.xxx attribute, dist-info/XXX file, etc.). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13408 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13408] Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Sounds reasonable to me. (is it normal that there's no online help for it: $ ./python -m pydoc packaging.resources no Python documentation found for 'packaging.resources' ) -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13408 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13408] Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles
New submission from Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: The code dealing with the new resources subsystem used to be called datafiles (module distutils2.datafiles, file dist-info/DATAFILES, etc.). I believe it is a better name and we should use it again: - it would make clear that it’s an evolution of distutils’ data_files - it would make clear that it’s related to install_data and data_files “resources” is overly vague and ambiguous. It can refer to natural resources, computer resources, links to more information, etc. “data files” is less vague and less abstract: it refers to files that are not modules, scripts or C files. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 messages: 147665 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles versions: 3rd party, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13408 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
