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Maybe I can put this arguement to rest. It doesn't matter how competant your product is (CPAN) if you aren't delivering what the market wants. Yes, CPAN provi
by true_religion 15y ago
Maybe I can put this arguement to rest.
It doesn't matter how competant your product is (CPAN) if you aren't delivering what the market wants.
Yes, CPAN provides a utility in the ecosystem, but most users do not use the extra features that CPAN provides over something like PyPi.
And even in the cases where there is a feature overlap (e.g. repository storage and breath), after a certain point things are "good enough" and theres a marginal return for adding more.
Does it matter if there are 17 SHA1 implementations on CPAN and 3 on PyPi? Not really, since you only need 1 good implementation. In fact it could be argued that having more implementations is worse due to paradox of choice.
- Mithaldu 15y ago> Yes, CPAN provides a utility in the ecosystem, but most users do not use the extra features that CPAN provides over something like PyPi. How do you know that?
- berntb 15y agoIn short, you're arguing against the long tail... Let me add also mine anecdotal experience from yesterday: I looked for a good SQL parser/evaluator in Python (which I partly use at work). There might be one, but I didn't find any. It is easy to find on CPAN. (And this is hardly an unusual request.)