28 Dec
2019
28 Dec
'19
3:42 a.m.
Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen(a)firemail.de> writes:
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.
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.