[Distutils] Odd thought

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:01:40PM +0100, Jack Jansen wrote:
>Or you could go into "interactive mode": show the help message, as is done 
>now, and then say "Command: ", read a line, strip, push into sys.argv. 

Interesting idea.  However, is this the job of the Distutils or of
some third-party package handled by the Catalog-SIG?  Consider Perl's
CPAN.pm as an example; it's a shell for searching for modules,
fetching them, and installing them.  I don't know if it handles
uninstalling, too.

--amk