Greg Ewing wrote: >> The "resources" name is actually quite a common meme; > > I believe it goes back to the original Macintosh, which > was the first and only computer in the world to have files > with something called a "resource fork". The resource fork > contained pieces of data called "resources".
I can believe that history. Still, I thought a resource is something you can exhaust; the fork should have been named "data fork" or just "second fork". > Then Microsoft stole the name, and before you knew, > everyone was using it. It's all been downhill from > there. :-) Right. I'm not asking that the name is changed in setuptools - I'm just complaining about the state of the world, and showing my lack of intuition for the English language. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
