[Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python - requirements

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Subject: [Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python - requirements
> 
> I can't remember now whether CPAN did installations or just downloaded stuff
> and made you figure out how to install it.

(My understanding of) CPAN is that it's a repository of things that
install a standard way. You download what you want and

	perl Makefile.pl
	make install

Mark