On Jul 24, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> 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".
Obviously, "module" is modifying the term "distribution". No matter, I like your point below. > 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). I think that using the term "project" here addresses the terminology issue nicely. As Phillip pointed out, this is the terminology that setuptools uses. So maybe PyPI should expand to "Python Project Index". Aside from PyPI, I'd really like to "bless" this terminology. If we all seem to like this term, I'd be happy to try to update the distutils documentation to reflect this terminology. (I hope we don't need a PEP to adopt this terminology.) Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
