Re: cvs: CVSROOT / loginfo.pl

On 08/09/01, "Sterling Hughes" <sterling@designmultimedia.com> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Why? Unlike PHP, Perl currently has a very Robust system for > distributing packages (no offense pear folks)... Its not that big a > deal, either way, but why is code reuse a bad thing?? Most of the > "official" Perl sources strongly advocate the use CPAN, over homegrown > solutions. Hi Sterling, I agree in principle but from my experience of Perl and CPAN I've found that if I use some perl source that requires another module I end up having to download and install a whole chain of other dependencies for some functionality that only takes up a couple more lines of "native" code. Furthermore, I have also found that about 40% of the time I have to find an older version of a package to make it work (after I have downloaded and compiled the newer one and discovered it didn't work). It's a nice idea, when it works :-) --Wez.