[Python-Dev] setuptools: past, present, future (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Apr 22 17🔞59 CEST 2006

I was actually referring to the quality of the code.

On 4/22/06, John J Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: [...] >> Python sorely lacks; but I've also heard from more than one person >> that CPAN sucks from a quality perspective. So I think we shouldn't [...] > (as for the CPAN quality, any public repository will end up being full > of crap; I don't see any way to work around that. automatic scoring [...]

I had assumed Guido was referring to the quality of the infrastructure, including CPAN.pm, rather than the quality of the code stored in CPAN. I've certainly heard at least two people complain about the usability and reliability of the CPAN infrastructure recently, and recall I found it rather unfriendly myself. But that was around 5 years ago; I may simply be wrong or out of date.

John

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