On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:40, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > At this point, people are just going to keep calling this entity a > “package”, consistent with the majority of other languages and systems > out there.
I'm not sure that's a problem. When you are talking about installation and distribution, the distribution and the package are almost identical. > We'd have more chance, I think, of changing Python's concept “namespace > that behaves like a module and can have sub-modules” — currently called > “package” — to a different word and encouraging adoption of that new > term. I don't think it's realistic to change the name of one of the fundamental concepts of Python. I sure as heck is not a question for distutils-list. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
