On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:56 PM, JT Moree wrote: > AgentM wrote: >> CPAN. Use CPAN. You will always have the latest and greatest and >> *all* modules are available on CPAN first.
Latest-and-greatest is fine until you need to install some software that requires the not-so-latest-and-greatest. Also, the latest-and- greatest is more often the latest-and-broken. So it would be nice to install version N-1 sometimes. > I concur. Use the modules that are in your distro. AFter that use > modules from cpan. My only issue with cpan is that it is not really a package management system like yum+rpm or apt+dpkg. Or is it and I'm ignorant of what cpan can do? For example, with cpan how can I do the following: - install pre-compiled binaries of the modules. Time spent compiling is time not spent doing something else. - query to list the currently installed modules with versions, files, and file locations - uninstall a modules. This is most important when cpan fubars something up. - query dependencies, that is, if I remove module X what other modules will break In short, can I do with cpan for perl what I can do with yum for rpms or apt for debs? The other thing that kinda irks me about cpan is the docs, or rather lack thereof. 'perldoc cpan' is a whopping 85 lines; 52 lines if you remove the blank lines. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
