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zorkian on April 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face...

Well, if your argument is that it's easier to contribute to NPM, then you should consider that Perl has been managing the same output for 18 years that the Node community has for the past four: about 6700 modules/year.

For what it's worth, uploading to CPAN is not very difficult. Getting a PAUSE account is easy and uploading is no problem. It's really no harder than the PyPI system.

MetaCosm on April 16, 2013 [–]

Step #1 is "apply". That is a hell of a barrier to entry. You also need to explain what you want to do with the pause account.

As I said in another comment, it might end up being to the detriment of node, but now it feels like a feature.

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