Perl/CPAN v. Ruby ?

[Tom Insam]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> Brian Wisti <brianwisti at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> [...] Rubygems is a packaging system. You'll be downloading and installing
>> "gem files" into their own special location. Your opinion of this will
>> probably depend a lot on your opinion of specialized packaging systems.
> 
> This is possibly the single most annoying thing about CPAN, next to the fact
> that there's no quality control nor any pointers to what's actually useful,
> and the search facility is a joke.
> 
> For a language that is supposedly excellent at text processing, you would
> expect the search to be a lot better.
> 

I use the search linked from 
http://log.perl.org/2005/10/new_search_engi.html which is lovely, and 
does the Right Thing about PAUSE permissions, too.

tom