Steffen Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And now that I think about it, I'm not so convinced about that whole
> >"concenience for the end user" nonsense. If they're mucking about
> >installing perl modules from the CPAN packages by themself, they're
> >probably developers that need some extra time to sit there and think
> >about what sort of madness they're getting themselves into anyway.
> I strongly disagree! CPAN is the preferred source for any Perl modules
> and the associated tools like CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS are the preferred
> method of installing them. Why? Because since you are not going to see
> all modules in .deb or whatever packages and not in the most recent
> versions. Using both the system's package system and CPAN's for module
> installation is going to bite you on most systems some day.
Steffen,
I more meant the madness they are getting themselves into by
programming in perl in the first place. :-)
- Tyler
