Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > >> On 3/3/2010 12:05 PM, John Nagle wrote: >> > CPAN is a repository. PyPi is an collection of links. >> >> As Ben said, PyPI currently is also a respository and not just links >> to other repositories.
[..] >> > CPAN enforces standard organization on packages. PyPi does not. > > This is, I think, something we don't need as much in Python; there is a > fundamental difference between Perl's deeply nested namespace hierarchy > and Python's inherently flat hierarchy. Perl's hierarchy is 2 (e.g. Text::Balanced) or 3 levels deep (e.g. Text::Ngram::LanguageDetermine), rarely deeper (Text::Editor::Vip::Buffer::Plugins::Display). Which is in general most likely just one level deeper than Python. Perl is not Java. And I think that one additional level (or more) is a /must/ when you have 17,530 (at the time of writing) modules. If Python wants it's own CPAN it might be a good first move to not have modules named "xmlrpclib", "wave", "keyword", "zlib", etc. But I don't see that happen soon :-). -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
