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