[Python-Dev] setuptools: past, present, future

[John J Lee]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
[...]
>> Python sorely lacks; but I've also heard from more than one person
>> that CPAN sucks from a quality perspective. So I think we shouldn't
[...]
> (as for the CPAN quality, any public repository will end up being full
> of crap; I don't see any way to work around that.  automatic scoring
[...]

I had assumed Guido was referring to the quality of the infrastructure, 
including CPAN.pm, rather than the quality of the code stored in CPAN.

I've certainly heard at least two people complain about the usability and 
reliability of the CPAN infrastructure recently, and recall I found it 
rather unfriendly myself.  But that was around 5 years ago; I may simply 
be wrong or out of date.


John