[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:52:59 CST, James Bennett writes:
>On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wr
>ote:
>> This feels like a post relative to the catalog-sig too, or maybe even m
>oreso
>> than distutils-sig...
>
>The question that's on my mind here, and which I haven't really seen a
>solid answer to in the various threads, is which parts of CPAN people
>seem to want. The original post mainly seemed to be concerned with
>saying "install this" and having it automagically work, dependencies
>and all, which is much less a PyPI issue and much more a "sort out the
>packaging and installation tools" issue than a PyPI issue.

My impression is that he wants for BioPython a distribution such
as enthought makes for NumPy.

Laura