From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T11:22:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

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From: "Joey Gibson" <joey@joeygibson.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?


> ||| So, all you almost-satisfied Ruby programmers, what's missing? :-)
>
> One part of cpan that I really like is the cpan shell that let's you query
> what you have, find what you need and install it. I haven't looked at the
> Perl code for that to see how complicated a task that is, but it's a very
> nice thing to have.

True, but a meta-issue.

The question at hand (correct me if I'm wrong, David) is:
What libraries (i.e., *content*) does CPAN have that you
wish Ruby had? (Ditto for Python's repository.)

Hal