SPUG: Activestate's PPM vs. CPAN.pm?

[El JoPe Magnifico]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Colin Meyer wrote:
> One thing that I noticed is that it includes ppm, activestate's perl package
> manager.  I have only used ppm a little, but it seems to provide rpm style
> packaging for cpan's .tar.gz files.  

So what's the difference between PPM and CPAN.pm?
Just packaging style?


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