Paul Querna wrote: > > Successful CPAN-like systems were mostly started back when package > management was an enormous pain. It still is on some platforms > *cough*solaris*cough*, but they are generally the exception these days.
Also, in almost every case CPAN-style systems focus on one language, their own, no matter if it's scripted or VM-style. It means pluggable bits of the core language are easily expanded. Even PHP's Pear follows this basic pattern. C isn't Apache, and Apache modules, although many, many are written in C, can be implemented in many languages. I tend to agree with Paul that the plug-n-go style package repositories are a better fit, even when they come up short on Solaris/Win32/etc.
