SPUG: Activestate's PPM vs. CPAN.pm?
Matt Tucker
tuck at whistlingfish.net
Wed Aug 2 18:21:38 CDT 2000
-- El JoPe Magnifico <jope-spug at n2h2.com> spake thusly:
> 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?
PPM offers pre-compiled binaries. On Win32, this is quite an advantage,
since the user isn't required to have dev tools installed. On Linux,
this a good deal more dubious, considering the wide range of
installations available. Having distribution-specific
rpms/debs/whatever (or just using CPAN.pm) makes more sense to me.
- Matt
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