Looking for PyPi 2.0...

Wed Feb 15 16:24:23 EST 2012

On 2/8/2012 9:47 AM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nathan Rice
> <nathan.alexander.rice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a user:
>> * Finding the right module in PyPi is a pain because there is limited,
>> low quality semantic information, and there is no code indexing.

 CPAN does it right. They host the code. (PyPi is just a
collection of links). They have packaging standards (PyPi
does not.) CPAN tends not to be full of low-quality modules
that do roughly the same thing.
 If you want to find a Python module, Google is more useful
than PyPi.
				John Nagle