Re: RPG 'CPAN' site

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

David wrote:
>My experience with CPAN has been bad so maybe my view is tainted. The
>search never works for me so I have to use Google. When I downloaded and
>installed the Perl iSeries port it did not work. It took me several
>hours to identify the problems and correct the build, which will not run
>as delivered. I would be happy to share my findings but with who? I
>can't submit a patch and there is no way to convey this to others. I
>have not looked at the Python port.

Yeah, CPAN isn't the greatest, and I've often resorted to Google
myself to download required modules.  I'm not suggesting that
CPAN is an ideal model.  It's just that everything is there. (Or
supposed to be there, if you can just find it.)  But then, I
really haven't done much Perl in the past few years.  With
Python, there's so much included in the standard distribution,
there's less need to download modules.

Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com