in reply to Re^9: Why is it in some other popular languages fewer steps and potential issues when installing libraries no testing needed and no compilation of C/C++ code done
in thread Why are other popular languages very different from Perl when installing libraries, e.g. no testing needed and no compilation of C/C++ code done

* PPM is widely used on Windows, not very much elsewhere

Then why does ActiveState provide builds for solaris and linux? The answer is because it has customers

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