Working group for Python CPAN-equivalence?

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> People who are familiar with and like CPAN are free to help improve PyPI.
> Those of us not familiar with it may not know what we are missing, or have
> little idea about what works with CPAN.
>


CPAN also covers up some deficiencies in Perl that Python doesn't
suffer from. I am sure we could do well not to replicate those
features.

Regardless, Python's packages are distributed in a number of ways.
PyPI is only one of them. Fedora and Ubuntu are two other ways.

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Jonathan Gardner
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