[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] packaging terminology confusion

Michael Foord fuzzyman at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 00:52:53 CET 2010


2010/1/7 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>

> At 09:20 PM 1/7/2010 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>
>> > 8614 *projects*, some of which have one or more *versions*, which in
>> > turn may have one or more source or binary *distributions*.
>>
>> Instead of "version", I really like PyPI's term more: *releases*.
>>
>
> Not all versions are released versions, so I suppose it's actually:
>
> project -> version -> release -> distribution
>
>
>
>  As for projects: fine with me; PyPI would then be the Python Project
>> Index.
>>
>
> +1.
>
>
+1 from me as well. It does remove ambiguity.

Michael



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