ppm install DBI
vs.
perl -MCPAN -e "install DBI" (and hope it compiles and such)
Sorry...which one was easier? :) | [reply] |
When everything works exactly as planned, assuming that you
have no interest in trying to figure out what is going on,
etc, etc, etc, Windows does indeed succeed in making life
easier.
In the real world I find that those simple successes pretty
much take care of themselves. And there Unix leaves you in
much better shape to detect that there is a problem and
resolve it in situations where Windows delivers you to a
blank wall.
The fact that you are getting Perl, for free, with the
ability to go look at the source and learn from it is very
much a product of an attitude that comes from the Unix
world, not Windows.
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mothra no doubt that it's a lot easier to type 'ppm
install DBI'. That's not my point. Notice I said there's
an easier way to do it in Unix. That's based against the
fact that sierrathedog04 is currently downloading tarball,
perl Makefile.PL...
Instead of me typing all the commands only to learn that
I need module-X before distribution-Z can be installed,
perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::LWP" finds everything I need
and installs it for me, with relative ease, I might add.
ALL HAIL BRAK!!!
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