<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 9, 2010, at 11:38 AM, P.J. Eby wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Anyway, IMO "parcel" works great as a substitute for "distribution" (as it is a concrete term for a concrete thing) and not so great as a substitute for "project" (since a project isn't that concrete a thing and "parcel" therefore seems *too* concrete).<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>This is precisely what I meant to recommend: "Parcel" would be a good replacement word for the Python-specific meaning of "distribution". I'm sorry if I was ambiguous and created confusion.</div><div><br></div></body></html>