Re: cvs: CVSROOT / loginfo.pl

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Wez Furlong wrote: > 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). > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Modulename' Takes care of checking whether the module is already installed, chooses the best mirror to download the module from, downloads dependencies and makes and installs the module. Is that sooooo complex? Anyhoo, enough people have not wanted this, so i won't change it. -Sterling