[Chicago-talk] FreeBSD. Ports collection vs CPAN?

[Imran Javaid]

I find the ports useful only when the target server will not have gcc or other
development compilers installed. I had some production servers where I was not
allowed to install gcc and the modules needed required a compile. In that case
the pre-built port (or in that case RPM's) came in handy. Otherwise, CPAN
should be the way to go as you will get the most recent version of the
module.

-imran

------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:01:43 PM CST
From: Ed Pigg <ed at questinformation.com>
To: chicago-talk at pm.org
Subject: [Chicago-talk] FreeBSD. Ports collection vs CPAN?

> Hi all.
> 
> I'm starting to build a FreeBSD 6.0 server for 
> development/experimentation purposes. There are quite a few perl 
> modules in the ports collection. What are the pros and cons of using 
> the ports collection for adding/updating modules vs CPAN. On Mac OSX 
> I've always used CPAN. Any thoughts or advise is welcome.
> 
> Ed Pigg
> ed at questinformation dot com
> 
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