[Distutils] Another conversation starter - pip documentation in the Python docs

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 Jul 2013 07:45, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 14 July 2013 22:36, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> That's 32600 projects, There are almost 200k distributions. And the
main table listing would be "Releases" or "Project Releases".
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>> ok,  got it.  anything I do from here on will follow this.
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> That's much better. I apologise, I hadn't noticed that PEP 426 included
terminology definitions.

They were necessary for me to keep them straight in my own head. The
original set were a bit odd, but I think the
project/release/distribution/archive split has ended up in a reasonable
place after a few iterations (it's still open to revisions if anything
seems too awkward, though).

I don't think the ambiguity of "package" will ever go away entirely, but we
can justify that to some degree by noting that distributions mainly serve
to get Python packages and modules installed and available for import.

Cheers,
Nick.

> Paul
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