I'd give up Perl tomorrow if only...

[holger krekel]

brueckd at tbye.com wrote:
> On 30 Jun 2002, Aahz wrote:
> 
> > >I suggest that you be a Perl programmer for a while, and see what having
> > >CPAN accessible and authoring for it really is like.  You explicitly state
> > >you aren't familiar with it.  I've been author of a couple CPAN modules
> > >for about 4 years now, and an extensive user for just as long, and have
> > >been a Python module writer for just over a year now.  Python is a great
> > >language, but in terms of a reusable code repository, *nothing* comes
> > >close to the jewel that is CPAN.  There is a reason you'll hear this over
> > >and over from people coming to Python from Perl.
> > 
> > But somehow one doesn't hear it very often from people who've been using
> > Python for a long time
> 
> Just to chime in - Aahz hit the nail on the head here... for whatever
> reason, *not* having a CPAN thingy just isn't that painful right now.  

I somewhat disagree.  IMO the standard-lib approach doesn't scale very well. 
Python seems to get to a stage where the google-path doesn't cut it, either.

> It's great that people are trying for it because it *will* be useful, and
> eventually an implementation will get done and reach critical mass and
> become the standard, but not yet. I'm fully confident that if a CPAN-like
> system will be critical in the future, Guido will fire up the time
> machine, come back, and have somebody start working on it so it'll be done
> in time.

>From Guidos keynote at EuroPython i recall some statistics about python's 
growth.  A Comprehensive Python Network (CPYN) could accomodate and support
this growth. Better sooner than later, not?

    holger