[Python-checkins] CVS: distutils/doc/dist dist.tex,1.13,1.14

[Greg Ward]

Update of /cvsroot/python/distutils/doc/dist
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv22310

Modified Files:
	dist.tex 
Log Message:
Guido's rewording of my definition of "root package", with an addition by me.

Index: dist.tex
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/distutils/doc/dist/dist.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -C2 -r1.13 -r1.14
*** dist.tex	2000/05/26 01:04:47	1.13
--- dist.tex	2000/05/26 02:24:28	1.14
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*** 172,181 ****
    in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other
    directories by the presence of a file \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}.
! \item[root package] the ``package'' that modules not in a package live
!   in.  The vast majority of the standard library is in the root package,
!   as are many small, standalone third-party modules that don't belong to
!   a larger module collection.  (The root package isn't really a package,
!   since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py} file.  But we have to
!   call it something.)
  \end{description}
  
--- 172,183 ----
    in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other
    directories by the presence of a file \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}.
! \item[root package] the root of the hierarchy of packages.  (This isn't
!   really a package, since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}
!   file.  But we have to call it something.)  The vast majority of the
!   standard library is in the root package, as are many small, standalone
!   third-party modules that don't belong to a larger module collection.
!   Unlike regular packages, modules in the root package can be found in
!   many directories: in fact, every directory listed in \code{sys.path}
!   can contribute modules to the root package.
  \end{description}