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Glossary: Missing a term for environment, site, ....

Open guettli opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

I am missing a term for the thing which holds all those nice python libraries.

How to call the container where pip/wheel ... installs the software into?

How to call the one thing which is allowed to provide a sitecustomize.py?

I asked on python-ideas an this project was mentioned. Maybe we can find a matching term together.

Python-Ideas thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/python-ideas/XNgEK4lbxt0/SDnuYHAXNQAJ

Up to now I found these terms:

  • Project https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/applications/#projects-and-applications
  • Application https://caremad.io/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/
  • site https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html
  • complete python environment https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/requirements/

I don't care at all which term gets chosen. My intention is to find an agreement.

What do you think?

guettli avatar May 24 '16 10:05 guettli