| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgFoundry Download URLs |
| Date: | 2010-01-07 07:43:03 |
| Message-ID: | 8AD87A62-1477-4836-B7D8-9C7AFFF7CB2F@kineticode.com |
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On Jan 6, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Not really. The saving grace wrt/CPAN is that for some reason nearly
> all Perl modules have documentation, it's all in the same format, and
> CPAN lets you browse it on the web. That's often enough to
> distinguish the good stuff from the crap. IMHO, if it weren't for
> that, it would be worthless.
search.cpan.org has been fantastic for the success of CPAN, but CPAN was pretty successful before that site came along.
Best,
David
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