The decentralized nature of the Python community is driving me crazy

[John J. Lee]

"Mike Orr" <sluggoster at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> several attempts to build a Python one or a multilingual one.  The
> Cheeseshop and easy_install are the most successful attempts.  There's
> a project aimed at integrating easy_install into Python itself, but
> with the technical and compatibility issues it will take several
> months.  More and more packages are being listed in the Cheeseshop.  If
[...]

Part of setuptools (on which easy_install is built) is already part of
the soon-to-be-released Python 2.5.  But most of it is not.  More of
it will be in 2.6, once setuptools 0.7 is done (though I'm not sure if
*all* of it even then, if that's inappropriate).  Certainly isn't
stopping people from using it, of course: a lot of work has gone into
making easy_install work smoothly with as many existing projects as
feasible (which is quite a good percentage of the projects out there).


This is a good way to see what's going on:

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/


John