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mirekrusin on Oct 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: WTF is a container?

JAR/WAR general idea is not that new as well, we had CPAN before!

BjoernKW on Oct 17, 2016 [–]

CPAN is more akin to Maven (or rather public Maven repositories) / RubyGems / NPM in that context. Perl modules are hardly self-contained. Compiling Perl module dependencies could be a real pain at times.

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