CPAN functionality for python

[Andrew Kuchling]

ssthapa at classes.cs.uchicago.edu () writes:
>   I'll set up an account on starship early this week.  The biggest problems
> I see are getting authors to add their modules to the package index and 
> getting sites to host the archive.  But before that I would like to work out
> a format for package entries so that it wouldn't need to be changed later on.

I posted a list of fields
(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2000-November/000016.html)
that no one had problems with.  

--amk