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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2004-02-19 23:03:29 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2004-02-19 23:03:29 (GMT)
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- according to Apple's publication style guide, yes, "Mac people" use
the term Installer (always capitalized, however) - generalize the text about the term "installer" in a fairly reasonable way
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@@ -1149,8 +1149,8 @@ either as a ``binary package'' or an ``installer'' (depending on your
background). It's not necessarily binary, though, because it might
contain only Python source code and/or byte-code; and we don't call it a
package, because that word is already spoken for in Python. (And
-``installer'' is a term specific to the Windows world. \XXX{do Mac
- people use it?})
+``installer'' is a term specific to the world of mainstream desktop
+systems.)
A built distribution is how you make life as easy as possible for
installers of your module distribution: for users of RPM-based Linux