On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:01:18PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > Not only that, but they have to re-invent every wheel in the universe, > because the wheels have to run on the JVM. Why? >
Well, I have to say that even though I'm starting to warm up to Perl (I used to break out in a rash every time I had to modify someone's perl code), I would MUCH rather have full cross-platform compatibility by re-implementing things in Java than deal with the abomination that is CPAN. I am very dependent on some excellent perl web apps (cvsmonitor, webgui, rt) that have a lot of dependencies, and I have resigned myself to the fact that every time I need to do a clean install on a new machine I'm going to spend a half day waiting for errors so I can then 'force install', manually editing config files to get things to work when everything supposedly went ok with the 'install', and basically pulling out hair. That's why A central repository of cross-platform C libraries and perl extensions that just automagically download, build, and work is a nice dream. CPAN is a nightmare. Downloading .jar files, OTOH really does almost always work. Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
