On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: [..] > I usually refer to the latter as 'Python package' and the former > as 'package'. > > What you download is a 'distribution file' which could be an exe, > a tarball, an egg, etc. There are many forms such a package > distribution can take and just as many ways to install them.
That would be a "release" instead imho. (I like Tres' definitions for that) e.g. a "release" comes in several "distributions" : an egg, a source dist, a binary dist, etc. > > Once installed a 'package' usually creates a single 'Python package' > (at top-level or some lower level). That's not always the case. Many projects have also scripts, and /or top level modules in site-packages. Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
