Re: What's the difference between a suite, a library, and a distribution?

It depends on from what environment we have to translate these terms into perl, but for the general software case I would expect it to go like this:

Term    General Meaning          Perl meaning
------- ------------------------ ------------------
suite   set of software packages - no perl-specific
                                 meaning
library set of routines          a local or public module
                                 (.pm file)
distribution
        all files belonging to   distribution of a version
        a version of a product   of the core of perl (CPAN
                                 not specifically included)
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Re^2: What's the difference between a suite, a library, and a distribution? by JohnMG (Beadle) on Oct 24, 2005 at 15:34 UTC
Yeah, that word "library" seems to be overloaded. It can mean one module (like how a .so file is often called a "shared library") or a group of modules (ex. the Perl standard library).	[reply]
Re^3: What's the difference between a suite, a library, and a distribution? by revdiablo (Prior) on Oct 24, 2005 at 16:48 UTC
word "library" seems to be overloaded. It can mean one module ... or a group of modules I wouldn't really say it's overloaded. I think most people think of a library as a collection of functions, or perhaps more generally, a collection of functionality. This doesn't imply much about the structure or organization, which means it could be 1 module, or 35 modules.	[reply]