--- On Mon, 30/11/09, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Perl is the only programming language with a centralized > well managed > CPAN archive. The repository is so excellently managed that > its search > features, the code quality found in modules and the other > aspects of > its ecosystem works remarkably well. What irritates me is > the perl > -MCPAN switch that installs modules from the command line. > It asks so > many questions that leaves me tired and frustrated. Instead > I find > that in BSD operating systems many popular perl modules are > available > as readymade packages. In debian also most of the common modules are packaged, so that installing from cpan is not required. You can use apt-get instead. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
