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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing 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".

I can believe that history. Still, I thought a resource
is something you can exhaust; the fork should have been
named "data fork" or just "second fork".

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

Right. I'm not asking that the name is changed in
setuptools - I'm just complaining about the state of
the world, and showing my lack of intuition for the
English language.

Regards,
Martin