[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] packaging terminology confusion

[Ben Finney]

"David Lyon" <david.lyon at preisshare.net> writes:

> If you have a zip/archive file, you can put anything in it. No reason
> why 'everything' can't go in it.
>
> A "L'Oeuf incredible" might include a Python 2.x and Python 3.x code
> set, make code for linux, .pyd for windows.
>
> It would be so un-confusing to have an egg like that.

I disagree entirely with that last statement.

However, you're now talking about changing the package format, and not
the terminology of what we already have. So I'm dropping this
sub-thread.

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Ben Finney