#! rnews 1598 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Path: news.xs4all.nl!newsspool.news.xs4all.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!textfeed1.on.meganewsservers.com!meganewsservers.com!feeder2.on.meganewsservers.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!diablo.voicenet.com!nntp.abs.net!attws2!ip.att.net!NetNews1!xyzzy!nntp From: Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: something like CPAN, PPMs? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: cola2.ca.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Lines: 38 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The Boeing Company References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:58:32 GMT Xref: news.xs4all.nl comp.lang.python:379601
Alex Gittens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to Python from Perl, and loving it. Has there ever been any > discussion of creating a similar resource as CPAN for Python, or a > similar distribution method as PPMs? Seems like it would make a great > language even better. > > Alex > -- > http://tangentspace.net/cz CPAN: 1. A lot of the CPAN subject matter is in the base python installation. 2. Much of the remainder is associated with projects which are doing something else and happen to provide python bindings. 3. That leaves python-specific libraries as candidates for a CPAN. See: http://www.python.org/pypi (see also http://www.python.org/sigs/catalog-sig/) http://www.vex.net/parnassus/ (the original classic) PPM: The typical python install is: a) unzip and untar b) run "python setup.py install" So what you are looking for is setup.py, and its module, distutils http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6-6M21 BCA CompArch Design Engineering Phone: (425) 294-4718 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
