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

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

Posted Feb 9, 2008 17:45 UTC (Sat) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News) by Cato
Parent article: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

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.

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