> I didn't come up with the name "distribution". Distutils did that. > Whether we like it or not, the Python Library Reference defines this term. > > http://docs.python.org/dist/distutils-term.html > > We have a real problem with terminology.
Perhaps. I notice that the page you refer to does *not* define the term "distribution", but "module distribution". I also notice that PyPI is not an index for these (i.e. .tar.gz or whatever files containing Python modules). Instead, in *indexes* Python projects (as Richard calls them, and I think quite correctly so). Each project then may have multiple _releases_, and each of them may refer to distributions (but not only so, it also refers to a home page, an author, a description, Trove classifiers, etc). Regards, Martin FWIW, the distutils terminology would make it "PyMDI" :-) _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
