[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Packages vs Python Packages

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Shane Hathaway writes:
 > You can already put a Python package in a RedHat package, then put that 

Yes, but doesn't everyone calls them RPMs, not packages?

 > RPM in a software package and ship it to retailers in a boxed package. 
 > No one chooses a different word because no one finds it confusing. :-)

And the people who deal with the box from the retail outlet don't
generally deal with anything at the RPM level or below, unless they're
masochists.  They just click "workstation" and let the installer take
over.

So the lack of confusion is really that nobody is really using the
word for all three of those things, certainly not in the same breath.
That situation doesn't apply to the combination of Python packages and
Zope 3 packages.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation