My primary work product is a fairly large open source software system with users around the world. Perl is currently only used for configuring and building the other software, which is mostly written in C and C++. I am rewriting some of its Lex/Yacc/C-based programs in Perl for increased flexibility, but we don't want to have to support all our external users (who don't pay our salaries) in installing modules from CPAN and handling any version dependencies that my code has.
We can (and do) say "this software requires Gnu Make 3.81 and Perl 5.6 or later" since they are not a hurdle for most users (other than those poor guys forced to work on Windows), but to add "and the CPAN module Acme::Blah 2.2" would leave new users puzzled, increase the traffic on our mailing list, and might scare some of our users away completely.
Luckily our needs are light and most things we need are available in the core distribution so it's not that much of a loss. This is therefor one scenario where CPAN isn't necessarily useful (sorry to burst the bubble).
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|