Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News) [LWN.net]

Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

Posted Feb 9, 2008 14:57 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News) by zooko
Parent article: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

Of course, Perl's CPAN library of modules is still far larger than either Python or Ruby's -
and with Perl 6 it should be easier to use such Perl modules from other languages.   It's not
just the existence of libraries with Perl, it's being able to type 'cpan -i Useful::Module' on
any Linux or Windows box - or in the case of Ubuntu/Debian the most useful ones are already
packaged.  I think some other languages are doing this as a result of Perl's success with CPAN
- the Python Package Index (PYPI link) is a good example.

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Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

Posted Feb 9, 2008 17:45 UTC (Sat) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

Yes, these are some of the most exciting parts of the Python world to me right now:

The Python Package Index
the easy_install tool which does the same thing as your example: "cpan -i Useful::Module", on multiple operating systems
setuptools, which allows you to programmatically specify dependencies on other packages, and which will hopefully grow to replace GNU Make for my Python projects

These were certainly inspired by CPAN and by Ruby's "rake" tool.

Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

Posted Feb 11, 2008 14:26 UTC (Mon) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/
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