- 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 a79e6d5..f33e01b 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -1149,8 +1149,8 @@
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