Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: > Perl is quite stable, and has tooling to acquire modules and turn > them into Debian packages that works very well most of the time.
Perl is a special case IME. It is used a lot by system features so it is important that the installed module versions match the rest of the system. (Although python et al are taking over some of these respons- ibilities). But as a Perl developer you generally want something closer to the latest, greatest version. Fortunately perl has an excellent mechanism for maintaining multiple versions of modules such that those installed from system repositories for system use and those installed from CPAN for development or other uses keep themselves separate in a very nice way. Other languages would do well to emulate it, IMHO.
