On 17/12/2012 00:43, Michael G Schwern wrote:
... Perl is a cross platform, cross environment language. Not all the environments we work with have good package managers. Off the top of my head: Windows, a huge, hidden number of our users, has nothing usable and the Solaris package manger is a joke. Not all users in those environments have access to those package managers. Not everybody wants to use them to manage Perl. For example, cpan2rpm is a commendable effort but also a nightmare... ... more excellent points... Most shops that make it work have a Perl expert on hand. They should not need one.
Michael is right. I deal with setting up Perl driven software are a wide variety of systems. This often means setting up Perl itself because the system doesn't have one, or to have a non system instance. It can be a real pain, it shouldn't be, it should be easy and straight forward for all. TIMTOWTDI, relying on the OS for package management can be far from idea, or not even an option.
Lyle
