Hi folks, In the past, I've always defaulted to using whatever programming libraries that came packaged with my OS -- Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. If I couldn't find something I needed, I grabbed it from my language's repositories: pip, gem, cpan, etc. This has the advantage of getting security updates from the OS vendor, as well as getting libraries guaranteed to work with apache/nginx/etc.
These days, I'm not so sure this is always a great idea: you need external packages, but run into version incompatibilites with system packages. You also have to keep track of which packages come from which source. Thus a second method would be to install as much as possible from pip/cpan/gem/etc. What are folks' takes on this problem? I'm hearing about the latter method more and more lately; would like to hear everyone's experiences. John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University [email protected]
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