[_xo_]

They really should have added CPAN (for perl) to their list. Perl might not be the most popular language nowadays, but in my opinion, their package manager gets a lot of things right...

* centrally hosted

* mirrored all over the world

* packages are automatically checksummed & the checksum is compared on install

* is is quite easy to publish packages

and very important in my opinion

* it encourages you to write tests. Unit tests included in packages are automatically executed when it is installed. Many systems (semi)-automatically report back when the installation of a package fails. Hence you get tests on tons of platforms for your package

* pod documentation is automatically available on cpan.

[pmiller2]

More importantly, without CPAN, we might not have things like pip and npm.

[BugBrother]

Please check CPAN Testers and copy that too to the Python world.

Not only will you get comprehensive tests and reports of all the packages with different OS/language versions, it is a great test of the language implementation with different C compilers etc.

[reiz]

We are constantly adding new package managers to our system. CPAN and Nuget are already on our radar. We will update the blog post in a couple months with them.

[jackmaney]

I'm picking up Python in my new job, and one thing that I dearly miss from Perl is an equivalent to Dist::Zilla (https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla). After a bit of initial setup (name, PAUSE account, etc), publishing is about as easy as

   dzil new My::Module
   <build library>
   dzil test #Make sure the build and tests go okay
   <set version and add changes to changefile>
   dzil publish

[agumonkey]

AFAICR, CPAN is PM's PM, and it's been that way for as long as I can remember. When is the next Perl resurrection ?