[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 20 13:34:13 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

The "resources" name is actually quite a common meme;

I believe it goes back to the original Macintosh, which was the first and only computer in the world to have files with something called a "resource fork". The resource fork contained pieces of data called "resources".

Then Microsoft stole the name, and before you knew, everyone was using it. It's all been downhill from there. :-)

-- Greg

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