[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

[John Gabriele]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, John Gabriele <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, here's a suggestion: just call both things (packages and
> distributions) "packages", but then agree to fully qualify the names
> when you need to avoid ambiguity, for example: "I just built a
> distribution-package (or "dist-package" for short) and included
> numerous module-packages in it."
>
> * If you mean the kind of package holds modules, and the meaning isn't
> clear from the context, say "module-package" (think "honeymoon
> package")

Whoops. Looking back through this thread, that last line should probably read:

"""
... say, as Brad A. suggested above, "module-package" ...
"""

---John