[Python-Dev] People want CPAN :-)

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Nov 7, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Jesse Noller wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>> I think buildbot-style test runs for PyPI packages would raise  
>>> average
>>> package quality on PyPI.
>>
>> Please excuse the cross-post but I wanted to make sure that all  
>> these "CPAN
>> for Python" discussions got this message and I've lost track of  
>> which list
>> which part of what discussion had occurred on.
>>
>> We are currently extending our distutils/Distribute test system to  
>> include
>> installation of a broad range of packages as part of the pre- 
>> release process
>> for a future release of Distribute and as part of our "smoke" test  
>> for
>> distutils/Distribute.    Eventually, the goal is to integrate this  
>> with our
>> buildbot system but that's a ways off.
>
> Who is "we"?


We is the people working on Distribute/distutils.

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