[Tutor] where is CPAN for python?
Danny Yoo
dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:11:27 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Kirby Urner wrote:
>
> Anyway, options to consider (I have no idea what CPAN
> is -- another warning that this may be off-topic).
It's not really off-topic; it's a common question that comes up from
people who come from Perl to Python.
CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network:
http://cpan.org
and it's a distributed library of Perl modules. No illusions: at the
moment, it puts the Vaults of Parnassus at
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/
to shame. CPAN is mirrored all over the world, and it's very powerful.
CPAN is a Good Idea, and one that Pythonistas are eager to adopt. Toward
this end, people are organizing around the "Catalog" Special Interest
Group (SIG):
http://www.python.org/sigs/catalog-sig/
I just hope I see the fruits of their labours in a couple of years.
*grin*