[Distutils] GUI for Python package Management

[phil jones]

I'd be delighted to see someone working on this. However, in my ideal
world, this would be something that integrated with IDLE. I know tk is
not a patch on wx, but it is an included battery.


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:11 PM,  <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a developer from other languages and find myself on python now.
>
> I'm wondering if anybody has objections to doing a package management gui
> for python.
>
> My design suggestions would be to:
>
>  - use WXWidgets (cross compatability for most pythonic platforms)
>  - provide a GUI wrapper for EasyInstall
>  - source packages from http://pypi.python.org/pypi
>
> It seems we have most of the componentry in place. The problem seems to be
> that it doesn't come together in a very user friendly way at the moment
> that is cohesive.
>
> Can anybody/everybody flame/tell me why we shouldn't work to simplify this
> area of python ?
>
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