I would say that there is an inherent mechanism build in the community
where people know what sucks and what doesn't - survival of the fittest..
Brett
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:41:58 -0500, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
said:
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 13:03, Scott Harney wrote:
> > mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
> >
> > and does it have a mechanism that I can do:
> > # perl -MCPAN -e "install Mail::Spamassassin" and
> > get that and all the dependent modules ala apt-get,
> > portage, or *bsd ports system? including upgrading perl
> > itself if need be?
>
> No. Does anyone monitor/check the packages in CPAN for quality,
> like dpkgs go through QA?
>
> > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > >
> > >>> Perl does. Or CPAN. Or CPAN.pm.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.python.org/doc/current/modindex.html
> > >> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/genindex.html
> > >
> > > That doesn't look anything like CPAN. And certainly not CPAN.pm.
> > >
> > > So, when someone writes a really useful module for Python, is there a
> > > central repository where they can publish it? Is there an automated
> > > way to publish it.
> > >
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