From: Rasputin <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T05:53:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> We've discussed a parallel to perldoc, but what about CPAN?  I know that
> we have RAA, but CPAN's recursive auto-installer is one of the really big
> reasons so many non-programmers can use perl-based software.  People are
> much less likely to reinvent the wheel if it's easy for them to explore
> existing wheels, and people are much more likely to use your ruby-based
> software if they just have to type 'cpan install <library>' and know it
> will download, compile, and install everything.

In my experience it always tries to update Perl itself, which is a bit
cheeky if you just wanted HTML-Parser...

Its better than what we have, but as I've said before, there are better 
models than CPAN to emulate (BSD ports/package tree and Debian apt-get 
spring to mind).


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