From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:03:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: - according to Apple's publication style guide, yes, "Mac people" use
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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
---

diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
index a79e6d5c03..f33e01bc0c 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -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