[Distutils] packaging terminology confusion

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 22:39:33 CET 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>
>>> As for projects: fine with me; PyPI would then be the Python Project
>>> Index.
>
> +1
>
> If this gets general agreement, there are probably some places where
> the word 'package' should be replaced with the word 'project', right?
> For example, should PEP-345 be retitled as "Metadata for Python
> Software Projects 1.2" ?

+1, we should reflect this terminology in all new PEPs and in
Distutils doc as well

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