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Why not a Python Package Manager

Pete Shinners pete at visionart.com
Wed Jun 7 13:50:54 EDT 2000 
maybe a step towards what Debian has with its DEB packages?

some sort of python central library with all packages
in a standard environment. there would be precompiled
packages for maintained architectures and/or source.
each package would list its dependencies

it would then be trivial to download and choose which
python packages you wanted since they could automatically
take care of their dependencies.

after downloading source and creating the module
(with distutils in 1.6) you could have the option
to submit that module back to the repository as a 
precompiled version for your architecture?

heh, anyways just a wild idea that struck me.
likely a lot of work, but then again definitely 
worth the investment it seems.

now i need someone to get inspired and make it happen :]
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