In a nutshell, stack is a collection of components, with the goal of setting up one "server environment". You could, for instance, have a Django or Pylons stac

In a nutshell, stack is a collection of components, with the goal of setting up one "server environment". You could, for instance, have a Django or Pylons stack that would be composed of a script that installs Python, MySQL, Apache, mod_wsgi and finally Django/Pylons itself.