Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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Normally the word 'distribution' is reserved for what lands in the
'dist' directory, such as a tarball or an egg...right?
Right.
We should use the terminology as defined in
http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-specific-terminology
So technically it's a "module distribution" we're talking about.
Well, I wonder if we shouln't use the term "distribution" instead
here. the "module" word is quite fuzzy to describe a distribution that
might contain modules, data files, and/or packages. It doesn't bring
any useful information to the terms here.
You're right: the word "module" here is confusing, since it has another
meaning (and is even mentioned in the previous section). But "module
definition" is indeed the correct term. Maybe we should mention that
where we use "distribution", the full term is "module definition" as
defined in that section. Calling it "module definition" throughout the
PEP would be horrible.
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