[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

[Paul Moore]

2009/11/7 Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>:
> One project that would help a lot is just a "easy python setup"
> documentation project that describes, as simply as possible, in large fonts,
> how to get a working Python setup that adheres to a few conventions.
[...]

+1 Strong conventions would help a lot here, IMHO.

At least as useful would be a similar document explaining how to write
a Python package (contents of setup.py, doc/test subdirectories,
registering on PyPI, what to upload - bdist_wininst, egg, source, ...)
This would make the build/install experience much more consistent for
new packages.

Paul.