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From: paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com (Paul Palmer)
Subject: [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:13:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM6uckkRK8T90h80nHrcb1usCGc=AzVYaM-E5iYxBC2JA=XCKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2blrtjvhc.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no>

This is true but if you can run CPAN shell (I think it's called) it takes
care of this for you.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 3:43 PM Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF <
coff at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:

> Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen at firemail.de> writes:
>
> >> I work in Python for my day job.  Every day I use PyPi, the third-party
> >> package repository, and every time I do I miss CPAN.  Sure, there was a
> >> lot of crap in CPAN but the repository itself was well organized.
> > I agree. The perl package system is very good.
>
> The package system may have been good, but what I remember most clearly
> from working with it is how the dependencies would always get in each
> others' way.  "This package depends on version 0.0.3a of pl-foo, but
> also on this other package, which in turn depends on version 0.0.3b of
> pl-foo, and of course 0.0.3a and 0.0.3b have completely incompatible
> APIs, so you're screwed."
>
> That's probably the start of the path leading to Docker, right there.
>
> -tih
> --
> cpan. cpanic. cpandemonium.
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-27 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-16  1:33 robert
2019-12-17 22:54 ` paul.allan.palmer
2019-12-17 23:02   ` clemc
2019-12-21 22:22 ` grog
2019-12-22  0:42   ` cym224
2019-12-22 16:51   ` krewat
2019-12-22 21:36     ` dave
2019-12-22 22:05       ` paul.allan.palmer
2019-12-23 17:04       ` krewat
2019-12-23 19:54         ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-23 21:59           ` krewat
2019-12-23 23:15             ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-27 16:28               ` athornton
2019-12-27 18:24                 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-27 21:42                   ` tih
2019-12-27 22:13                     ` paul.allan.palmer [this message]
2019-12-23 23:03       ` [COFF] Gnu Smalltalk or...? [was: Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019] rtomek
2019-12-24 17:46         ` bakul
2019-12-25 17:50           ` rtomek
2019-12-22 22:41     ` [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019 grog
2019-12-21 23:32 thomas.paulsen

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