Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
That case is far from the only one to consider, though. As already pointed out, there are existing examples of ‘foo-3.6.tar.gz’ that contain zero collection-of-module packages, and there are other such examples that contain multiple collection-of-module packages. So it's not the same thing (and I'm not saying you didn't know that). It's needlessly confusing to expect people discussing these entities to distinguish the name depending on how the modules are collected together internally. Such a thing will *still* be called “a package” by programmers familiar with the wider programming world, regardless what name Python has chosen for them. I think it behooves us to choose terminology that acknowledges that, even if it means asking the Python community to change its terminology to be a little less parochial. -- \ “Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first | `\ principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the | _o__) easiest person to fool.” —Richard P. Feynman, 1964 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
