On Sat, 15 May 2004, DH wrote: > --- Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ ... ] However, installing via ppm ensures > > the module is installed into the correct location, and also, > > it registers the package with ppm, so that updates and > > removal in the future can be done within ppm. > > installing using CPANPLUS ensures the exact same thing. > Putting pure perl packages on ppm repositories just ppm > breeds incompetence. I get email all the time from people > who never heard of cpan.org/CPAN/CPANPLUS or who never > read perlmodinstall.
That is unfortunate that there's these two almost orthogonal ways of installing things - ppm and CPAN/CPANPLUS. However, at least for Win32, many will prefer ppm, due to lack of a compiler. -- best regards, randy
