Need better packaging (was Re: [Python-Dev] SQLite module for
Python 2.5)
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Thu Oct 21 20:04:46 CEST 2004
Brett C. wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>
>> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> Maybe we should have this discussion on more general grounds:
>>> do we really want a fat Python distribution or should we focus
>>> more on making installation of third-party tools easier ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I think you hit the nail on the head. For myself, I think we want to
>> make it *much* easier to install 3rd-party tools. I also think we need
>> to make it *much* easier to *update* the modules that come with Python
>> without having to wait for a new Python release (much as it is easy to
>> update packages in a linux distribution).
>>
>
> OK, so is everyone
So far, we're far from everyone. :)
> just talking about coming up with our own version of
> CPAN, or does this also include replacing Distutils?
I see this building on or working with distutils.
> And for those of you not in the Mac world, MacPython already has
> something called packman that downloads 3rd-party apps and installs them
> by running their setup.py scripts.
Right, I refered to that in my note.
Jim
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