You know, I was first thinking of IKEA myself as well. But if I buy something from IKEA, say a table, it comes with clear instruction how to assemble that specific table. And I can't use the parts to make something else.

Now, if I get something from CPAN, it's not "ready to assemble to do a specific task". Instead, it may provide some of the functionality you're seeking, but it can also be used to create something else. Ergo, Home Depot, and not IKEA.

And I do think CPAN is for more than modules. Luckely, the maintainers of CPAN think so as well, and named it CPAN, not CPMAN. If it would be just for modules, you wouldn't be able to get the perl sources from CPAN.

In reply to Re^2: Distribution of Program and/or Module by Anonymous Monk
in thread Distribution of Program and/or Module by pboin

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