[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

[David Lyon]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:15:52 -0500, "ssteinerX at gmail.com"
<ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's definitely one thing. We have nothing like that yet.
>
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/88/create-an-equivalent-of-perl-mcpan-e-shell-for

So what... :-)

I have my own shell to too.... 

But my shell is built into a standard setup.py. It has less command line
parameters to
remember than perl. So it's even better than perl.

http://bitbucket.org/djlyon/original-setup.py-with-metadata/src/tip/setup.py

C:\>python setup.py
setup - WARNING - Configuration file setup.conf not found
Usage: setup.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i NEW_PACKAGE, --install=NEW_PACKAGE
                        Install a Package/Application
  -r PACKAGE_TO_REMOVE, --remove=PACKAGE_TO_REMOVE
                        Install a Package/Application
  -l, --list            List installed Packages
  -d, --debug           Show debug messages
  -u, --user            Use the User Package Directory
  -s, --site            Use the Site Package Directory
  -q, --quiet           don't print status messages to stdout
  -v, --comparepkgsetup
                        Compares package installation against Packages own
                        internal unverified setup.py
  -c, --cleanup         Cleanup workarea

David