On Mar 27, 2011, at 03:36 PM, Yannick Gingras wrote: >On March 24, 2011, Éric Araujo wrote: >> > Bob learns about the Cheeseshop [2]_, and adds some >> > simple packaging using classic distutils so that he can upload *The >> > Bob Package* to the Cheeseshop. >> I know that the referenced PEP 345 call these things “software >> packages”, but let’s try to use consistent terminology. See threads >> starting at >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2011-March/017438.html >> and http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2011-March/017450.html . > >Éric, can you summarize the discussion that took place on these >threads? As far as I can tell, no consensus was reached for a new >terminology and so the old definition still prevails: > > http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/introduction#concepts-terminology
As I mentioned in my follow up to Éric, if you really want to encourage adoption of specific terms, you're probably going to need to write a PEP that clearly defines them. Referencing a mailing list thread ain't gonna cut it. >In that case, a "package" in PEP 396 would refer to: > > a module that contains other modules; typically contained in a > directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other directories > by the presence of a file __init__.py. > >I fell like the usage proposed for *The Bob Package* is pretty good, >except for the choice of "upload". Of course, you don't upload the >package, you upload "distributions" that contain that package. See my previous follow up. -Barry
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