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ActiveState announces the PyPM Index

bluss — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:05:09 +0000

also known as cheeseshop.

ActiveState announces the PyPM Index

jamesh — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:59:03 +0000

They are basically offering a service similar to RHEL for Python. That is, you get a support contract with the binaries.

Perhaps the free packages are there as bait for the paid product?

ActiveState announces the PyPM Index

busterb — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:51:33 +0000

Also worth checking out is the similarly-named Python Package Index:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi

ActiveState announces the PyPM Index

plundra — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:52:36 +0000

Uh, so I have to sign up for at least the $999 per server/year to get the database modules, like psycopg2(!!).

Not sure who they are targeting. Why have some categories open/free, but not all?
Are they trying to lure people in to paying for the Business-edition? I have yet to try the tool my self, but maybe it makes life so much easy people might consider it.