[Python-ideas] Make a CPAN like system for Py3K

[Leonardo Santagada]

I know about cheeseshop and I know about setuptools. But how about  
all this be standard tools on python 3.0, so we can have something  
like CPAN but better. With setuptools being default on py3k you can  
already easy_install everything, ok but then we can do even more.  
When the user run a python script, if it requires a version of a lib  
that he doesn't have it could download it and install in his home  
folder (something in the lines of ~/pythonlibs). This will make it  
much easier to distribute python programs. I think this is somewhat  
like what java webstart does. What do you guys think? Also why no one  
is talking about having a tool like setuptools in the stdlib?

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Leonardo Santagada
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to  
consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the  
family anatidae on our hands." - Douglas Adams