[BioPython] Plans for release 0.95d01

Andrew Dalke dalke@acm.org
Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:28:40 -0700


Jeff:
>Yep.  I vaguely recall a few years ago someone complaining that lacking
>CPAN is a large problem with python, and it's still true...

Quite a few people complained about it, including Greg Ward,
who decided to write distutils with Perl's build system as
a guide.

Somday there will be a CPyAN .

It still doesn't solve the problem where perl's install
system and (say) rpm's install system conflict.

                    Andrew