Re: [tlug] Alternatives to sed + awk

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> CPAN modules are hit or miss--some are well worn-in and very reliable,
> but others were written by a guy with two weeks of Perl experience and
> no concept of references--but the CPAN system itself is fantastic.
> Ruby Gems is an equally easy-to-use way to reuse code, and Python's
> easy_install makes Python modules easy to come by these days. So call
> that a draw.
> 
> How easy is it to grab PHP libraries?

E.g.
  pear install Mail_Mime

To see what you have installed
  pear list

pear has some quite rigourous coding standards, which has kept quality
up but also meant some useful software is not in pear. However with
custom channels (in pear since about 2005) people can host their own
repositories.

pecl is the equivalent for extensions with binary code.

I personally like pear, but it isn't as widely used as CPAN or ruby
gems. So some software is instead distributed as a tgz (or svn/git
checkout). Or as RPM/deb (which is easier for the administrators of the
cheap web hosting I imagine?)

Darren


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