[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] packaging terminology confusion

[Brad Allen]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Rafael Villar Burke (Pachi)
<pachi at rvburke.com> wrote:

> That's why I think 1) is easier and find very compelling John Gabrielle's
> idea of qualifying the terms "package" as "module package" and "(module)
> distribution" as "distribution package". These point to the two levels of
> packaging or grouping used, one for namespacing or grouping code and other
> for distribution or grouping software components for distribution.

+1

This idea is starting to seem like a practical solution that won't
damage the future readability of old documentation and archived
mailing list discussions.