[Distutils] Name the software! Package quality tester.

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Mon Mar 7 11:01:40 CET 2011


> I've started working on a little utility to give a quality rating on
> packages

Please don’t call those things packages.  Let’s try to use “package”
only for a directory that you can import from Python, and “distribution”
for a bundle/archive of one version of a project.

http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/fixing-packaging-terminology-confusion/
http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/introduction#concepts-terminology

Regards


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