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An FTP based Python Module repository (was Re: Imagemagick)

chris patti cpatti at atg.com
Fri Feb 4 16:33:06 EST 2000 
Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw at equi4.com> writes:

> chris patti wrote:
> 
> [to quote Ivan: bobbit]
> 
> > One of the reasons for CPAN's success in the Perl world is that,
> > simply, it's an FTP archive.
> > 
> > Thus, people can and do mirror it.  This creates a multi-site,
> > persistent cache of the entire library, so when the one site where
> > module Frobnitz.pm comes from goes down, the world doesn't suffer.
> > 
> > The Python world needs something similar.
> > 
> > Another big win in this is that it eases the automated retrieval and
> > installation of modules, in the Perl world we have CPAN.pm which lets
> > you say things like:
> > 
> > install frobnitz
> > 
> > And it will search the archive, find the latest version, download it
> > and install it to your local Perl installation.
> > 
> > Such a thing is _eminently_ possible in Python...
> > 
> > I have neither bandwidth nor disk to offer, so feel free to have me
> > publicly tarred and feathered for heresy :)
> 
> An FTP repository for packages, with an HTTP-based web interface for
> those who prefer that access mechanism... gee, that's an idea.  One
> could even periodically produce CD-ROM's from such a repository.  It's
> not new, of course (www.cdrom.com?).  Nor particularly difficult.
> 
> Has anyone considered teaming up with the Tcl community and then asking
> VA Linux (of SourceForge fame :) to consider providing the underlying
> infrastructure?  (No, I won't crosspost, though it would seem logical)
> 
> Perhaps not.  Pythoneers want a Python-specific solution (Trove/Zope?),
> just like Tcl people and Perl.  I seem to be one of the few who fails to
> see why...
> 
> -jcw

I see no reason not to share web / ftp server space, but I fail to
understand how / why any other combined archive would be useful.

Just slap me around if I'm being dense, here :)

-Chris
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