From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-10-16T00:38:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Eating sandwiches in the park

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

>On Friday 15 October 2004 09:59 am, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>| (now if we could only get something as good as CPAN in the core...but
>| that's another story...)
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>I have heard this before, but I am not familiar with CPAN. What is so good 
>about it?
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>Thanks,
>T.
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CPAN  - www.cpan.org
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

it contains many modules that can be used in perl programs. Programs are 
also in CPAN. Though.. the modules are not maintained well and don't 
really have a sense of QA. Some of the libraries or programs don't make 
use of `use 5.8` so when I go run it on 5.6 it doesnt work, *yay*. 
Basically its a gigantic library full of perl software that are not 
maintained by any QA team, its maintained by the authors. So expect 
things to work.. and not work.. I hope RPA can cover some of the 
features that PAUSE explains in their webpages.

David Ross
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