On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 22:02, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > You might be saying something tautologically true: When the terms > “package” and “distribution” are used to refer to the same thing, their > referents are identical. Well yes, of course.
No, what I'm saying is that each distribution typically contains a package, and that when you therefore call distributions "packages" you generally do not add any practical confusion. If you say "I need to install this package" it may technically be unclear if you mean the package "foo.bar" or the distribution "foo.bar-3.6.tgz", but that difference is not in that case significant. Installing the distribution and installing the package is in that case the same thing. -- 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
