ActivePython 2.1 (build 210)
Jeremy Hylton
jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Thu Apr 19 23:05:07 EDT 2001
>>>>> "PP" == Paul Prescod <paulp at ActiveState.com> writes:
>> Second, I must apologize for what is probably a stupid
>> question.... You mention a rebuilt package repository with
>> Numeric etc., but I can't find them. I have a downloads directory
>> with Insall.Numeric and Install.PIL files but they only contain
>> an empty string ('').
PP> It's not a stupid question. ActivePython has a feature that
PP> other distributions of Python do not. It allows you to install
PP> packages over the Internet. It is in the start menu and called
PP> "Package Manager". And of course the equivalent is available for
PP> our Unix distributions through the command line: "pyppm".
Can you say more about how this feature works? Can anyone play along?
That is, if I have a Python package I'd like to distribute, can I use
this system? If I have a Python installation that isn't ActivePython,
can I install pyppm?
Jeremy
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