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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by sigzero on Sunday January 09, 2011 @12:48PM (#2085876)
Neither one of those actually holds a candle to CPAN.
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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by steveklabnik on Sunday January 09, 2011 @02:50PM (#2086207)
Then maybe CPAN's advantages shouldn't be explained as "gem install", err... "perl -e -MCPAN "install net::foo". Explain the _actual_ strengths of CPAN that make it a killer app.

Oh, and "It has MOAR!" isn't really a good argument. I've authored two gems, I think. Those are the only two times in two years of using Ruby that I haven't had the ability to just install the library that I needed.

(I loved Perl for years until I found Ruby, then never turned back...)

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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by kentnl on Sunday January 09, 2011 @05:44PM (#2086675)
Tests. Integrated Bug Tracking. There's 2 reasons.
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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by steveklabnik on Sunday January 09, 2011 @05:50PM (#2086700)
Sweet! Then lead with that. I'm not saying that CPAN isn't better than Rubygems somehow, but that "easy installation" isn't a selling point.
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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by ack on Sunday January 09, 2011 @05:29PM (#2086636)
try "cpan Module::Name", which installs the requested module
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Re:And suddenly, you're hip by steveklabnik on Sunday January 09, 2011 @05:35PM (#2086650)
Sweet. That's still on par with Rubygems, cabal, and everything else, though. That wasn't my main point.
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