Equivalent to ppm for Python?

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Tue Jul 4 07:55:04 EDT 2000


On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:41:23PM +0100, Pablo Prieto wrote:
> "donotspam-jen at personic.com" escribió:

> > Is there anything like PPM for Python?  For those who don't know, PPM is the
> > Perl Package Manager
> > (http://www.activestate.com/Support/ActivePerl/PPM.html).  PPM is a utility
> > that will go out and download and install packages for you from the Internet
> > (at least on Win32 -- I assume it works elsewhere, too).

> Sorry. This is not a reply. Just a request for this question be answered
> since I'm interested in it too.

While it's not exactly what you mean (it doesn't (yet) go out and grab
packages for you), Distutils, which comes with Python 2.0, is probably what
you are looking for. See the Distutils SIG on www.python.org.

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