[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> The "resources" name is actually quite a common meme;

I believe it goes back to the original Macintosh, which
was the first and only computer in the world to have files
with something called a "resource fork". The resource fork
contained pieces of data called "resources".

Then Microsoft stole the name, and before you knew,
everyone was using it. It's all been downhill from
there. :-)

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Greg