[issue13408] Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Sounds reasonable to me. (is it normal that there's no online help for it: $ ./python -m pydoc packaging.resources no Python documentation found for 'packaging.resources' ) -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker

[issue13408] Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles

Éric Araujo added the comment: MvL also thought the “resources” term to be non-obvious: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063966.html Other people mentioned its prior use within the Mac, the X system or Web frameworks. Someone mentioned “assets” in the game industry (als

[issue13408] Rename packaging.resources back to datafiles

New submission from Éric Araujo : The code dealing with the new resources subsystem used to be called datafiles (module distutils2.datafiles, file dist-info/DATAFILES, etc.). I believe it is a better name and we should use it again: - it would make clear that it’s an evolution of distutils’ d