<div dir="ltr">I remember setting up DNS & Bind, when my office arranged a 56K-baud permanent line in '93. Step one was to buy the O'Reilly book, I was just grateful it had been published.<div><br></div><div>Tom</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:59 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arocker@vex.net" target="_blank">arocker@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">><br>
> I don't have a real opinion on that, but complicated problems don't always<br>
> have simple solutions.<br>
<br>
</div>What I was grumbling about was complicated solutions to simple problems.<br>
"Solutions" shouldn't be more complicated than the problem they set out to<br>
solve.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> What we're trying to do here is give you access to a service with multiple<br>
> layers without forcing you to know about everything that is happening<br>
<br>
</div>I didn't mean a particular criticism of MetaCpan's process; it seems quite<br>
normal by today's standards.<br>
<br>
Adding a program used to be a simple matter of putting a file in an<br>
appropriate directory. Now, it's unpack a tarball, initiate an install,<br>
hope that it uses compatible libraries, has no unfulfilled dependencies,<br>
and doesn't do anything ugly to the existing directory hierarchy.<br>
<br>
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