lost interest?

[Alex Martelli]

"Andrew Kuchling" <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote in message
news:3dzo4pputt.fsf at ute.mems-exchange.org...
> Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> > CPAN is marvelous.  The way the Perl and Python communities operate, it
> > fills a niche perfectly in the Perl world, but I think would be a bit of
a
> > solution looking for a problem in the Python world.
>
> Also, those of us using Debian already have dependency information for
> Python modules through apt.  It's not much fun to do a lot of work
> implementing a parallel Python solution that will still be less
> functional, as apt will also handle dependencies on non-Python
> software or libraries, a difficult task for a Python-only system.
> Switching to Debian has neatly killed my urge to work on a catalog.

Funny, the reverse effect to what switching to Mandrake had for me
(see mention of urpmi in my previous post on this thread).  Same
or similar causes, opposite effects!-)  Maybe it's about "being
cross-platform in one's bones"...:-).


Alex