CPAN for Python?

[Tres Seaver]

In article <slrn874buo.2do.coursesm at sbdhcp-4022.statenisland-ny.est.tcg.com>,
Stephen Coursen <coursesm at sbdhcp-4022.statenisland-ny.est.tcg.com> wrote:
>On 4 Jan 2000 11:30:50 -0600, Tres Seaver <tseaver at aftershock.neosoft.com>
>wrote:
>>In article <84t52c$1gg$1 at nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>,
>>Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:
>>>In article <38720F70.A5DC6F33 at ttm.com>,
>>>Scott Anderson  <sanderson at ttm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Is there an equivalent of Perl's CPAN for Python?
>>>
>>>Well, there's Parnassus (http://www.vex.net/parnassus/), but there's not
>>>yet an overarching authority.
>>
>>www.python.org blesses it, which is probably about as close as we'll see.
>>I may misrecall (blessedly little Perl experience) but doesn't CPAN allow
>>for browsing from the interpreter prompt, and downloading?  That would be
>>a cool extension of a wonderful resource.
>>
>>>OTOH, Python's "built-in" libraries are
>>>more extensive than Perl's; see the Library Reference for details.
>>
>>parnassus.py,-anyone?'ly
>>
>That would be a useful module to have, but for it to work, there would have
>to be a standard installation mechanism.  Perl uses:
>     perl Makefile.pl
>     make
>     make install
>     
>If python had a standard way of installing modules, writing a parnassus.py
>script would be easy.  Unfortunately, not every module installs the same way
>(although there seems to be only a few different methodologies).
>
>Steve

The distutils SIG will be reporting at IPC8/DevDay: here's hoping they are
thinking along theses lines.

Clapping-coz-I-believe'ly

Tres.
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