MvL also thought the “resources” term to be non-obvious: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063966.html Other people mentioned its prior use within the Mac, the X system or Web frameworks.  Someone mentioned “assets” in the game industry (also vague in my opinion).

One con for “data” is that people may think it refers to files created by a program in the user home directory.

After reading this, I’m -0 rather than -1 on “resources”, and +0.5 on “data files”.  Whatever we decide, I strongly think all the code should use only one name (install_xxx command, dist.xxx attribute, dist-info/XXX file, etc.).