> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you mean, change the general name of these packaged up things from > "distributions" to "eggs"? What I mean is that the egg concept abstracts all the packaging details from the user extremely well. If a user gets told that all python packages come as python eggs, they just accept that and move on. If we could move to a position (slowly) whereby we had all packages as .egg files, that would make life simpler for users. It is less choices. > So, we'd generically refer to, say, > "CheesyComestible-1.2.3.tgz" as an egg? No. Just "CheesyComestible-1.2.3.egg" Eliminate : CheesyComestible-1.2.3.zip CheesyComestible-1.2.3.exe CheesyComestible-1.2.3.tar.gz CheesyComestible-1.2.3.bz2 Unneccessary and confusing. > What term would you use to refer specifically to a ".egg" file? Just "Python Egg". David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
