Concept

Python would be great with an automatic internet-based package installer (like apt-get). Python has tons of packages, a standard installer system (distutils), and a centralized package repository. All we need is a tool to bring them all together and harness their power!

Implementation

Python has such great networking, XML, and database support already that I think it would be pretty easy to make an automatic package downloader/installer.

One thing I'm curious about, however, is why nobody's done it before.

Todo

• Check the mailing lists for previous attempts, and find out why they failed

Resources

• easy_install is an effort at the same thing by the PEAK community.