[Tutor] where is CPAN for python?

[dman]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:47:32PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
| dman schrieb am 2001-09-15, 21:46:
| 
| >On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:10:08AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
| >| dman schrieb am 2001-09-14, 23:55:
| >| 
| >| [...]
| >| >| ..., why am I doomed with this Windo*s *&%^@
| >| >
| >| >I hear you.  For temporary relief, install cygwin.  It comes with
| >| 
| >| I use cygwin + cygwin-python, but the maintainer seems to have not 
| >| the time to build python with this extension:(
| >
| >Hmm, could be that or maybe cygwin doesn't support
| >setrlimit/getrlimit.
| 
| It is patched since december last year to support it.

Oh, ok.

| >Anyays, have you found XFree86 and KDE?  There are prebuilt binaries
| >for running with cygwin.  kvt is much better than using a DOS box, and
| >a free X server is cool too.
| 
| I wonder what it so fascinating with that KDE stuff.
| I am on windows with full GUI for all I need, so why to use KDE?

because KDE is a much better GUI than MS Windows.  (I actually prefer
GNOME, but it isn't available for cygwin/xfree)

| I have X installed, but I don't use it that much.
| 
| Maybe it is a difference if you have real Windows (NT) or just w98.

No, I have win2k at work but I prefer to use KDE.  I got the latest
gvim working with it, but couldn't do that with plain windows (I don't
have MS devel tool either though).

-D