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One thing I would like to know: why hasn't anyone else duplicated CPAN? I don't know Perl, but I've had to pull things from CPAN to make a Perl script work and

by wynand 17y ago

One thing I would like to know: why hasn't anyone else duplicated CPAN? I don't know Perl, but I've had to pull things from CPAN to make a Perl script work and I was impressed. At the moment I'm running parallel Python code on many different machines and it's a pain to make to sure that all the right packages are installed. I'm sure that something like CPAN would have helped.

billswift 17y ago
CPAN is a community project, I doubt that anyone could create an equivalent for another language, it would almost certainly have to be grown as the original was.
pdcawley 17y ago
Well... there's CTAN. Oh, hang on, that came first didn't it? Forget I said anything.