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Re: The case for SDKs
From:
Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Date:
August 6, 2001 18:29
Subject:
Re: The case for SDKs
Message ID:
20010806202949.H16606@chaos.wustl.edu
Moore, Paul [Paul.Moore@atosorigin.com] quoth:
*>
*>But this is a key issue. *If* bundles are the way to go, CPAN.pm must "just
*>work", straight out of the box, on all Perl installations. Otherwise,
*>there's a chunk of the audience who can't use the SDKs. (And that chunk is
*>probably the one least capable of dealing with getting and building their
*>own modules).
Nothing works 'straight out of the box' for every user anywhere. By this
edict we should settle for just talking about fantasy instead of trying to
implement a reasonable measure of success. Bundles are useful and with the
lack of *anything* useful in this regard, building first and seeing what
works is a better way to go then just say no becuase all the people all of
the time aren't going to have a 100% success rate.
*>I'm also assuming that CPAN.pm can be told to download a bundle, which I can
*>then copy to a disk, and take around various machines which aren't connected
*>to the Internet. I've never proved that this is possible, as I haven't got
*>CPAN.pm to work, but I'd say that ease of offline use is another critical
*>issue.
Have you read the man page? or even typed "?" at the prompt?
e.