[Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:22:45 -0500
> From: Guido van Rossum <guido at digicool.com>
> To: Bruce Sass <bsass at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
> Cc: python-list at python.org, distutils-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python
>
> But practicality beats purity: if a large fraction of users,
> especially newbie users, are using a specific platform, it makes a lot
> of sense to provide pre-packaged distributions for them!  E.g. Windows
> installers, Red Hat RPMs.  (So far my experience with Windows
> installers is much more positive than with RPMs though -- RPMs forever
> seem to depend on some version of some other RPM that you don't have.)
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Isn't this the point of distutils --bdist functionality? The 
catalog should provide download capability of any binary format
supported byu distutils. It can either be done on the fly at
request time, or batched periodically depending on the space
availability of the catalog providing site.

Mark
mwa at gate.net