Working group for Python CPAN-equivalence?

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 4 06:21:01 EST 2010


Peter Billam wrote:

> A very important thing about CPAN modules is the consistent
> basic install method:   perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make install

Well, we more or less have that with Python, too:

   python setup.py install

It may not always work smoothly, but it's the
one obvious thing to try when you've downloaded
a Python package in source form.

-- 
Greg



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