This feels like a post relative to the catalog-sig too, or maybe even 
moreso than distutils-sig...

Chris

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  I just found this comment on my blog. People have told me this in
>  person too, so I believe it is real pain (even if the solution may be
>  elusive and the suggested solutions may not work). But I don't know
>  how to improve the world. Is the work on distutils-sig going to be
>  enough? Or do we need some other kind of work in addition? Do we need
>  more than PyPI?
>  
>  --Guido
>  
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: dalloliogm <noreply-comment@[...].com>
>  Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM
>  Subject: [Neopythonic] New comment on Python in the Scientific World.
>  To: gvanrossum@[...].com
>  
>  
>  dalloliogm has left a new comment on your post "Python in the Scientific World":
>  
>  Python is suffering a lot in the scientific word, because it has not a
>  CPAN-like repository.
>  
>  PyPI is fine, but it is still far from the level of CPAN, CRAN,
>  Bioconductor, etc..
>  
>  Scientists who use programming usually have a lot of different
>  interests and approaches, therefore it is really difficult to write a
>  package that can be useful to everyone.
>  Other programming language like Perl and R have repository-like
>  structure which enable people to download packages easily, and to
>  upload new ones and organize them withouth having to worry about
>  having to integrate them into existing packages.
>  
>  This is what is happening to biopython now: it is a monolitic package
>  that it is supposed to work for any bioinformatic problem; but this is
>  so general that to accomplish that you would need to add a lot of
>  dependencies, to numpy, networkx, suds, any kind of library.
>  However, since easy_install is not as ready yet as the counterparts in
>  other languages, if the biopython developers add too many
>  dependencies, nobody will be able to install it properly, and nobody
>  will use it.
>  
>  
>  
>  Posted by dalloliogm to Neopythonic at November 6, 2009 8:01 AM
>  
>  

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