On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:53:44 -0800, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Phil Pennock wrote: > > That's just arse-backwards. But it's how The Community is maintaining > > Perl5. > > > > That's why this versioning issue was the final straw -- not huge in > > itself, but not insignificant and just the coup de grace. Perl has > > ceased to be my comfort language. > > > > For the time being, I don't have a comfort language for personal > > projects. But that just means that I'll use the languages I need to use > > anyway; Python, because I use it at work so might as well get more > > practice, instead of trying to escape from it (as I was doing) and C, > > since at least it doesn't pretend to be something it isn't and I know > > how it will bite me and when to switch to a scripting language. > > Oooh, if you don't like the occasional CPAN glitch just wait until you see how > Python (and everyone else) does it. Or doesn't do it. Have fun using the > "Vaults of Parnassus"! > http://www.vex.net/parnassus/ > > Hello, it's 1997 calling. They want their "cool links" page back! > > Or trawling the web looking for stuff scattered across 10 different web sites. > Maybe it's on Sourceforge. Maybe it's on Google code. Maybe it's on > Freshmeat, but maybe Freshmeat has an older version. More likely you'll pick > up some random joker's web page with Google which may or may not be up today. Nice sum up of what I've seen, but I really really hate is projects that went with the buzz-flow and started programming in C++, even if is is just for a 20 line program, that include their own Makefile, probably with weird installation path'es and use include files that are not part of any standard distribution and/or fileset, and because the author's system has the file, it must be available everywhere, right? Those are the projects I don't even *try* to fix for my own OS -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
