On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zo...@zooko.com> wrote: > On Saturday, 2010-01-09, at 11:47 , Brad Allen wrote: > >> Now I understand that your 'project' concept probably corresponds to an >> entry in PyPI which is associated with multiple releases > > Yep. Or actually the "project" is the thing that a few hackers like to > spend their time on. It is the thing that evolves over time, endures forks > and personnel changes, etc. The page on PyPI is best understood as being > the web page on PyPI which is here to inform you about the state of the > project. > > I tell people at hacker meetups that I work on the Tahoe-LAFS project. They > nod their heads. I'm going to continue saying that, and they are going to > continue nodding their heads, regardless of what we on this mailing list > decide. > >> When you have a release ready, what do you do with it? You 'package' it, >> of course. You don't 'project' it, and you don't 'parcel' it. What is the >> result of the 'packaging' activity? It's a 'package' of course. > > Bingo! And, this is true regardless of whether you're working on a project > written in Python or in another language or in a combination of languages. > >> Maybe it's just wrong to call the __init__.py directories 'packages', >> because they are really just a piece of what is getting packaged. > > Bingo! A "package" is something that you deliver to someone else and they > use it. You don't deliver __init__.py directories to people. __init__.py > directories are not packages. >
+1 If it were possible to rename "package" (the __init__.py kind), I might suggest going with "battery", as in, "a whole battery of modules". ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/battery ) Perhaps folks who run projects that distribute large numbers of related packages/batteries could somehow distribute them together as ... oh, I dunno, ... a battery pack. :) Also, fits well with "batteries included" motto. :) http://python.org/images/batteries-included.jpg ---John _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
