Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> writes: > These all raise the question for me, again: > What's the difference between a distribution and a package? > Which is the one with a setup.py and what is the other one?
<URL:http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#general-python-terminology> <URL:http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-specific-terminology> > If a distribution has a setup.py, then I'm not just having the > distribution names be the same as the module names This policy fails when the distribution includes multiple modules, or multiple packages. -- \ “Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” —Edsger W. | `\ Dijkstra | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
