Depends on the time, CPAN was far better than setuptools. It was even better than dealing with RPM, early on. RubyGems was the package manager that was really

Depends on the time, CPAN was far better than setuptools. It was even better than dealing with RPM, early on. RubyGems was the package manager that was really amazing and changed everything IMO. pip didn’t even exist until almost a decade later after that.