At 10:29 AM 1/7/2010 -0600, Brad Allen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The only inconsistency, I think, is that operating systems like Debian >>> refer to their software distributions as "packages" (as in, a packaged >>> up piece of software that you can download and install). "Packages" is >>> a great name for them -- too bad it's already being used in Python. >> >> I believe that's basically where the confusion comes from. > > Whoops. Just noticed that the front page of the PyPI says: > >> "There are currently 8614 packages here." > > (is that 8614 packages or 8614 distributions?)
8614 *projects*, some of which have one or more *versions*, which in turn may have one or more source or binary *distributions*. That at least is the terminology that setuptools and distribute use in their documentation at the moment.
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