On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ben Finney <[email protected]> > 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. > > Who is "people". AFAIK, most Python developers use the word "package" > for "python package" > and when they use the word "package" for "distribution", they will > stop doing it if they are told > that the proper word is "distribution" imho.
Well, I notice that the entire [packaging chapter of diveintopython3](http://diveintopython3.org/packaging.html) refers to distributions as "packages". And it's *very* common for new users to be sent to diveintopython/diveintopython3 when learning the language. ---John _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
