On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Bob Ippolito
wrote: [...] It might be the CPAN user interface that makes the difference. Using CPAN you can search for and install applications from an interactive prompt. No web browser needed, just one command line invocation (perl -MCPAN -e shell).
Although, we have an XML-RPC service for PyPI, and Yolk for example is a client that will let you query PyPI through a prompt. I agree it could be enhanced, but it exists. Maybe such a client could be added in Distutils ?
Plus, once the work on PEP 390 (or an equivalent one) is over, we will be able to list a distribution's dependencies on a given target system just by querying PYPI.
It's quite possible that pip will grow some of these features. At least search and querying the currently installed packages are planned in some fashion (someone has indicated the intent to do both these, I believe). -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker