[Cialug] Tasks for learning shell scripting

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Those are good points. I think using the distro's packages CPAN modules 
and not ever using CPAN directly basically gives you a CPAN-stable. 
Unfortunately, that definition of CPAN-stable provides very different 
packages depending on base OS. It is pretty rare that i have to use CPAN 
directly on a Debian system, for example. But on Red Hat or Solaris it 
seems i have to use CPAN more often. For Solaris that isn't an issue 
since its package manager is so terrible that subverting it by 
installing stuff directly is fairly common practice. And so far i've 
been lucky enough that on Red Hat i've not needed to install modules 
very often.

Just curious, what is the Python equivalent of CPAN, and how much is 
comparatively available, and how well does it work? I'd like to learn 
Python and if i can get lots of modules easily, that would help.

On 2010-09-29 at 11:19:20, Josh More wrote:
>As others have pointed out, using CPAN means choosing between using
>the native update mechanism and CPAN itself.  It's also a repository
>full of conflicts, abandoned projects and poorly-tested systems.
>
>What's annoying is that this could be solved by simply having a
>CPAN-stable that is reviewed by skilled people and verified as
>stable, secure and packageable by the common systems.  Too bad it
>doesn't exist.

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