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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
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@ -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