Re: Hating up2date

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Re: Hating up2date
Date: 09:16 on 24 Oct 2006
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:37:27PM -0700, jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:

> The biggest problem I have with CPAN is the contents.  Packaging tools
> only go so far, taste is also an ingredient for a good system.
> 
> (And no, I'm not bitching (here) about the language, but the about the
> poor quality of the stuff shoveled into CPAN.)

C is for "Comprehensive". It intends to contain everything.
90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse.

Nicholas Clark
There's stuff above here

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