I'm not missing the point: I just don't agree with yours. There's a difference.

You have to install software on a bunch of different architectures, machines you don't have access to, and you have to fight a bureaucracy. I don't see how any of those problems are solved by anything we're talking about. You still have to install software on a bunch of different machines of different architectures and you still have to deal with the bureaucracy.

I've been in that situation, and I always had CDs with all the binaries I needed. I compiled everything I needed and then I had it. Installing it on one machine or a hundred made no difference to me. Finding popular libraries is very easy, finding binaries of them is very easy, and in most cases compiling them is five minutes of work to get the thing going. After that, it doesn't matter if it's Perl or C or Java or anything else: you still have to push it to all the machines.

I wouldn't keep around a sysadmin who couldn't do this easily, and I certainly wouldn't tolerate any whining about it being too much work when I know it's not. This is not the sort of problem that a good sysadmin seriously complains about.

So, you have a tough job, and you know Perl. Let's see some code that solves it. Perl's all about making the hard things possible, so the people who keep complaining about hard things just aren't trying.

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

In reply to Re^5: Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by brian_d_foy
in thread Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by g0n

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