[Catalog-sig] New PyPI stats available

[Daniel Holth]

Who will remember the distinction without a glossary?
On Feb 18, 2013 10:31 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org>
> wrote:
> > On 19 February 2013 10:03, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> >> Le 18/02/2013 17:58, Richard Jones a écrit :
> >>> Thanks, I'm aware of vanity; it reports on one package. The
> >>> latest-totals is all packages.
> >>
> >> I can’t say if you’re talking about a project, a release or a
> >> distribution here.
> >
> > "package" is a name registered on PyPI. "release" is a version of a
> > "package." A "distribution" isn't referred to as far as I'm aware, but
> > could be a label applied to what PyPI calls "package file" - a single
> > file related to a "release."
>
> We've been trying to move to "distribution" as the thing projects
> register on PyPI to better distinguish them from the kind of "package"
> you can import directly.
>
> The general taxonomy as I understand it:
>
> - projects are an overall activity. They have policies, bug trackers,
> source control systems, mailing lists, developers, etc and may control
> multiple distributions. Hence "Project-URL"
> - distributions are what you register on PyPI: you intend to
> distribute Python software using that name. Hence "Requires-Dist",
> etc.
> - packages and modules are the things you can actually import at runtime
> - most, but not all, distributions will ship exactly one module or
> package with the same name as the distribution
> - a version is a [pre-|post-]release as described in the metadata spec
> - sdists are source archives for a particular version of a distribution
> - wheels are binary archives for a particular version of a distribution
> - eggs are binary archives in an alternative (discouraged) format
>
> We can get away with PyPI continuing to be the Python *Package* Index
> (rather than the Python *Distribution* Index), because most
> distributions contain packages, and it isn't worth the hassle of
> trying to change it. It would be good to have PyPI calling
> distributions by that name in the UI, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
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