On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Ingy dot Net <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, on a side note, can you point me at a URL that talks about the > "DISTRIBUTION" nomenclature in Python? I haven't seen it in my Python > research. We also call tarballs, "distributions" in Perl/CPAN land.
I first saw it in the Setuptools documentation. Somewhere around here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/ I can't find the exact vocabulary page. The distutils manual calls it a "module distribution": http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-specific-terminology There's no official Python vocabulary for it, but "distribution" serves to disambiguate it from packages. By the way, here's the latest packaging manual, unfinished. It's linked from the Python docs page so it has official approval. http://guide.python-distribute.org/ -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
