CPAN for python?
Thaddeus L. Olczyk
olczyk at interaccess.com
Thu Jun 8 11:46:23 EDT 2000
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 07:33:37 -0400, Randall Hopper <aa8vb at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Wonder if Python could have something similar. Folks could post URLs to a
>"getit.py" (or setup.py) script, and users could literally cut-and-paste
>this URL into a Python install tool that would just "do the install". That
>is, don't bother them with where to FTP or surf, how to get the files,
>where to put the packages, what the name of the distdir in the tarball is,
>etc. Just install the package and do what it takes to make it happen.
>That'd be cool.
You've got to be kidding!
Haven't you heard of "melissa" or "ILoveYou"?
When I asked about CPAN, I wasn't concrened about installation.
I can do that myself.
What I was concerned about was a vast repository of available scripts.
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