[python-advocacy] Obstacles to the adoption of Python

[Roy Smith]

As much as I hate Perl, I do have to admit that CPAN has one nice  
feature.  If you tell it to, it will recursively fetch all the  
prerequisites for a package and install them for you.


On Mar 23, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Cameron Laird wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:48:14PM -0400, Rex Eastbourne wrote:
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>> -Lack of a popular, mature add-on repository (I know there is  
>> PyPI, but it
>> doesn't seem to be as mature as CPAN)
>> -Documentation (I have no big problem with it, but many people  
>> feel the
>> online Python documentation is not up to par with what other  
>> languages have,
>> like perldoc)
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> PyPI and Python documentation are certainly different
> from CPAN and perldoc.  Moreover, there certainly are
> people who prefer the latter pair.  I'm unable to con-
> clude, though, that CPAN and perldoc are, in the year
> 2008, *superior*.
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