From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com (Paul Palmer) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:13:26 -0600 Subject: [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019 In-Reply-To: References: <20191221222234.GT95360@eureka.lemis.com> <8c757e99-bec1-b6d8-0d6a-96f55fbb2e35@kilonet.net> <7217cd90-a42a-68b2-dff1-4f90a1bf6063@kilonet.net> <2faaeddb7acece00e4a7da6dd71b566c@firemail.de> <38aeb1a1-6a03-54d7-3cfb-62b281b5e60b@kilonet.net> <8abbdcabf349359248223c65d511ab1f@firemail.de> Message-ID: 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 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. > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: