From 2a1bc50663fc81924b2ca78bc8e790e7bbe69bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:03:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - 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 --- Doc/dist/dist.tex | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.50.1