Sorry, when you use Gmail you end up top-posting whether you like it or not.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:

> Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> writes:
>
> It is always nice if y'all follow the existing quoting style in mails; it
> makes it much less confusing to follow later.
>
> > I have to agree with Daniel on this one.  While it's annoying to build
> > Solaris (in my case) packages for every CPAN package you want to install,
> > then end result is that I can control the installed version *precisely*.
> > While it may never have been a problem for you, I've been bitten more
> than
> > once by CPAN upgrades that break my software, so "old" systems work while
> > new systems don't.
>
> FWIW, at work we gave up on that despite using Debian and having pretty
> good
> support tools to do the job.  We settled on packaging all the Perl bits we
> use
> as a single package and landing that everywhere.
>
> That gives us a good balance between the two paths, and has worked out well
> to
> date.  Plus it keeps system Perl and company Perl separate...
>
>        Daniel
>
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