On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Jim Fulton wrote:
I question whether that distinction is important, but if and when it
is, then we could use an adjective to clarify. Under the hood, the
object we call packages today are just modules.
I think
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:26 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
At 05:18 PM 3/7/2011 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
If what we now call packages were called modules, then we could
start using the term package the way everyone else does. I think
lots of people would be less confused.
It
At 07:06 AM 3/9/2011 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
They certainly aren't projects in any sense that most people would
understand.
I don't follow you. Sourceforge hosts projects. Freshmeat indexes
projects. Mozdev.org hosts projects. The Apache Foundation hosts
projects. Project, IOW, is
On Mar 9, 2011, at 7:06 AM, Jim Fulton j...@zope.com wrote:
They certainly aren't projects in any sense that most people would
understand. They are arguably products of projects. Of course, the
term product has negative connotations for some folks.
Not for everybody! As far as I am
FWIW, when I've been writing docs or answering packaging questions and
trying to use the approved, unambiguous terminology, using project for
thing with a PyPI page has never been a problem; I've had much more
difficulty in using distribution as the term for a zipfile or tarball
or egg that you
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.
Regards,
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
