On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 01:00:20PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> > Just stating the obvious, but one of the reasons CPAN works so well is
> > that most of the modules are written in Perl and hence don't need
> > per-platform compilation.
>
> There are a *lot* of C-baded modules on CPAN; and my guess is that, more often than not, Perl modules depend on other
C-basedmodules.
>
> I daresay a lot of PostgreSQL extensions can be written in pure SQL or PL/pgSQL.
Oh, does CPAN distribute compiled modules or requires users to compile
them.
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