At 10:22 PM 3/9/2011 -0500, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
They certainly aren't "projects" in any sense that most people would
understand.
I don't follow you.
Maybe we have lost the context here, but I think I agree with Jim.
Even though PyPI hosts "projects", they (the files you download)
aren't "projects" - they are "distributions" or "packages".
I think you have lost the context; here, project refers to the thing
that you have versions of, which distributions in turn are discrete
manifestations of.
That is, a "project" has "releases" which has "distributions". For example,
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trac
is a PyPI page for a project,
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trac/0.12.2
is the PyPI page for release 0.12.2 of that project, and
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Trac/Trac-0.12.2.tar.gz
is one of the distributions available for that release of that project.
PyPI allows one to host a project that has neither releases nor
distributions, so in that sense it is certainly an index of projects,
in much the same way that ASF, SourceForge, MozDev, and others are.
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