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

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, holger krekel wrote:

> > > 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.

I don't think it scales that well, either, and I agree that it's not 
the best long-term solution, but for now it seems to be an 
important-but-not-urgent type of problem. That's why I think it's a good 
idea to keep working on a solution. IOW, if one's focus is on the present 
and they say, "we need CPYN" I say, "nah", but if one's focus is on the 
future I say, "yeah". :)

> >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?

Sure... I'm just musing that (1) when it becomes urgent (or a little
sooner) I'm fully confident it'll get built and that (2) not being too
urgent is why it hasn't happened yet.

-Dave