Jim Fulton wrote: > Brett C. wrote: > >> Jim Fulton wrote: >> >>> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> ... >>> >>>> Maybe we should have this discussion on more general grounds: >>>> do we really want a fat Python distribution or should we focus >>>> more on making installation of third-party tools easier ? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I think you hit the nail on the head. For myself, I think we want to >>> make it *much* easier to install 3rd-party tools. I also think we need >>> to make it *much* easier to *update* the modules that come with Python >>> without having to wait for a new Python release (much as it is easy to >>> update packages in a linux distribution). >>> >> >> OK, so is everyone > > > So far, we're far from everyone. :) > I have a tendency of talking too broadly when it comes to referring to others as a group. > > just talking about coming up with our own version of > >> CPAN, or does this also include replacing Distutils? > > > I see this building on or working with distutils. > OK. >> And for those of you not in the Mac world, MacPython already has >> something called packman that downloads 3rd-party apps and installs >> them by running their setup.py scripts. > > > Right, I refered to that in my note. > Oops. Sorry. Been doing a networking assignment this week and it has thoroughly fried my brain. -Brett
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