The decentralized nature of the Python community is driving me crazy

[metaperl.bzr at gmail.com]

hi everyone,

I am the first of what may be hundreds of refugees from the Perl
community. Not only is Python a more productive language, with many
more nice apps, but the people are friendly as well... waaay more
friendly than the Perl crowd.

But I must say the one thing I miss about Perl is my ability to stay on
top of all the latest modules and apps in one place: CPAN. With Python,
code is EVERYWHERE - people's local boxes, sourceforge, freshmeat,
codezoo, parnassus, etc, etc. Different approaches to documentation. A
much nicer install utility (python setup.py install r0x). But I am
finding it hard to keep on top and browse all the wares that are out
there because they are literally all over the net!

And then you have discussion and yet again, there is no perlmonks.org
for Python. We have this, IRC, and what else?

So, I guess this is my way of letting you know how lost I feel about
this de-centralized community. Dont get me wrong. I'm glad to be part
but I was thinking it would be nice if there were a one-stop-shop for
all my chat and wares needs. But for now, I guess I need to just add
few more bookmarks to main places to keep on top of daily besides
pythonware.com/daily.