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Max's Response (Score:1)
When I first started to work on Bugzilla's code several years ago, it was not in a state where a project like "Use DBIx::Class and Catalyst" was a feasible project. A huge amount of cleanup was required before anybody could even see the architecture of Bugzilla.
I'm glad
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As have been mentioned in various threads, there are solutions to that, including "bundle them manually", PAR, automating the install off CPAN, distro packages, etc.
This is not a language problem. Ruby and Python will both have similar issues. PHP doesn't because nobody uses any modules, they just write everything from scratch.
Reiventing all the wheels is of course another viable op
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It's true that it's a problem in any language, though some languages have things like email handling bundled in their standard library.
That's also one reason why PHP users require few modules--they have a ridiculously extensive standard library.
I agree that it's better to spread the work out on libraries across the community, though. It just m
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Except when they don’t (because ¾ of it are optional at compile time).
Re:Max's Response (Score:1)
They also have PEAR, which works pretty well.
-Max
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