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Neither one of those actually holds a candle to CPAN.

• steveklabnik 16y ago
  Then maybe CPAN's advantages shouldn't be explained as "gem install", err... "perl -e -MCPAN "install net::foo". Explain the _actual_ strengths of CPAN that make it a killer app. Oh, and "It has MOAR!" isn't really a good argument. I've authored two gems, I think. Those are the only two times in two years of using Ruby that I haven't had the ability to just install the library that I needed. (I loved Perl for years until I found Ruby, then never turned back...)
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  • ack 16y ago
    try "cpan Module::Name", which installs the requested module
    • steveklabnik 16y ago
      Sweet. That's still on par with Rubygems, cabal, and everything else, though. That wasn't my main point.
  • kentnl 16y ago
    Tests. Integrated Bug Tracking. There's 2 reasons.
    • steveklabnik 16y ago
      Sweet! Then lead with that. I'm not saying that CPAN isn't better than Rubygems somehow, but that "easy installation" isn't a selling point.