in reply to Re: p5p vs CPAN
in thread p5p vs CPAN
This is the problem. The perfect (p5p) is the enemy of the good (CPAN). How can it be acceptable that "fixing" Perl is "breaking" CPAN? I noticed the breaking changes tend to reduce the DWIM nature of perl in favor of some abstract notion of what is correct, like for example, my $foo qw(bar baz) makes perfect sense and was valid perl until some programming justice warriors decided that breaking backcompat was less important than their idea of programming correctness.
The result is broken scientific distros sitting on CPAN forever because, for example, we now have to --force install and add 2 characters to 1 module to fix 3 modules. Someone who is more of a scientist than a perl programmer will shrug their shoulders and move on to a programming language with working libraries. It's a dire situation!
Thank you Corion and daxim for your thoughtful replies and valuable information (but that anonymous reply, get an account! =)