[Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> 3/ Indices such as http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.mtime.html (or
> TXT files) to get a) recently released packages, b) list of release
> versions for a particular package, and so on (which would obviate the
> XmlRpc interface)

That is available as

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=rss

Regards,
Martin