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
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,
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
8614 *projects*, some of which have one or more *versions*, which in
turn may have one or more source or binary *distributions*.
Instead of version, I really like PyPI's term more: *releases*.
As for projects: fine with me; PyPI would then be the Python Project
Index.
Regards,
Martin
Instead of version, I really like PyPI's term more: *releases*.
Not all versions are released versions
Actually, from a PyPI point of view, they are :-)
Regards,
Martin
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Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Brad Allen bradallen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
As for projects: fine with me; PyPI would then be the Python Project
Index.
+1
If this gets general agreement, there are
Brad Allen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
As for projects: fine with me; PyPI would then be the Python Project
Index.
+1
If this gets general agreement, there are probably some places where
the word 'package' should be replaced with the word
Brad Allen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:51 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote:
I don't think we need to change anything - most Python software
components come as Python packages nowadays, so the terminology
'package' we've used all these years is correct.
Do you mean only
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote:
[..]
I usually refer to the latter as 'Python package' and the former
as 'package'.
What you download is a 'distribution file' which could be an exe,
a tarball, an egg, etc. There are many forms such a package
distribution
At 10:51 PM 1/7/2010 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I don't think we need to change anything - most Python software
components come as Python packages nowadays, so the terminology
'package' we've used all these years is correct.
Actually, this sentence rather proves the *opposite* point, since
2010/1/7 P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com
At 09:20 PM 1/7/2010 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
8614 *projects*, some of which have one or more *versions*, which in
turn may have one or more source or binary *distributions*.
Instead of version, I really like PyPI's term more: *releases*.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
As for projects: fine with me; PyPI would then be the Python Project
Index.
+1
If this gets general agreement, there are probably some places where
the word 'package' should be replaced with the word 'project', right?
For
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:51 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote:
I don't think we need to change anything - most Python software
components come as Python packages nowadays, so the terminology
'package' we've used all these years is correct.
Do you mean only 'package' in the sense of an
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote:
[..]
I usually refer to the latter as 'Python package' and the former
as 'package'.
What you download is a 'distribution file' which could be an exe,
How's that sound?
I read this as a -1 for changing PyPI to use project.
Still, support *for* renaming it is much wider, it seems.
Regards,
Martin
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote:
How's that sound?
I read this as a -1 for changing PyPI to use project.
Well, I'd say not -1, nor +1. I think either name for the PyPI is ok.
I was trying to address the larger issue of confusion of terminology.
I
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote:
3. People don't like calling those MyProject-1.0.2.tgz thingies
distributions. They keep calling them packages, and when you correct
them, they say, [sigh], fine. [eyes roll] 'distribution'.
Interesting. I've never
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote:
So, here's a suggestion: just call both things (packages and
distributions) packages, but then agree to fully qualify the names
when you need to avoid ambiguity, for example: I just built a
distribution-package (or
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Fred Drake wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote:
3. People don't like calling those MyProject-1.0.2.tgz thingies
distributions. They keep calling them packages, and when you correct
them, they say, [sigh],
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