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Suchandra Thapa ssthapa at classes.cs.uchicago.edu
Tue Dec 18 12:13:42 EST 2001 
maxm <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote:
>I guess that to kickstart a system like that, there would have to be a
>source of authority blessing the use of the system. And it should be
>featured prominently on the frontpage of python.org. I have used Python for
>a couple of years. Have been on the list the same time, and didn't know that
>the functionality existed.
>
>A believe that a Python CPAN system has to be somehow officially sanctioned
>to work.

    It doesn't even have to be a official sanction.  A little nudge would
really help.  It would also have the ancillary benefit of getting packages
to use distutils since both ciphon and swallow require  packages to use
distutils.

>But then that's the old problem with core language design vs. library
>enhancements, and who should do what, that we see again.

    Distutils has been incorporated into the standard python distribution
and it holds the same position in relation to the python language as any 
CPAN-shell implemenation would.

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