-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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], fine. [eyes roll] 'distribution'." > > Interesting. I've never observed any evidence of that. Yes, some > people call them packages. Others call them distributions. Even > outside the Python realm. > > Of course, if you'd rather call them tarballs, I won't mind. Even if > you don't use tar to make them. :-) Or they could be GBOFs (Great > Balls of Fire). > > As for the "get a package from the PyPI" verbage, I don't think that's > an issue. I suspect most distributions include packages rather than a > handful of separate modules these days. Nor is it wrong to use a > looser term (still widely accepted in the broader community) for the > things gotten from PyPI. > > The point of carefully defined terminology is primarily to make sure > that relatively formal communication, such as technical documentation, > can be carried out both effectively and efficiently. There's no need > to dictate terminology for casual communication, where context is > usually sufficient.
Amen! Let's go for precision in PEPs, docs, and other spec-like stuff, and not worry about correcting imprecise-but-easy-to-disambiguate-in- context usage in ordinary discourse. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktGzRcACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ77jQCgxjHfopLzY7b/s6mLYBtb8/d+ WcMAoM7zU+TScc+XFhrHKxF3W8hRNB1m =sbQz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
