Time for a Python "distribution" ? was:Not enough Python library development
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Fri Jul 6 09:33:41 EDT 2001
amk> Bruce Sass's suggestion of using the Debian package manager is a
amk> good one, because apt really provides exactly what we need.
amk> Unfortunately porting it to Windows or Mac is probably hard, so we
amk> could just steal its interface (which seems similar to pyppm's) and
amk> reimplement it in pure Python.
Couldn't RPM do similar things? It's got a somewhat stronger relationship
to Python, so porting to Win/Mac might not be as difficult.
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