Working group for Python CPAN-equivalence?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote:

> 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.

Do Fedora & Ubuntu's package managers offer modules that appear in  
CPAN? In other words, if I was a Perl user under Ubuntu would I use  
the pkg manager to add a Perl module, or CPAN, or would both work?


Thanks
Philip