| cpm | plenv | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 11 | |
| 165 | 509 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.1 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Perl | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cpm
Posts with mentions or reviews of cpm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-21.
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My unrealistic wish-list for Perl 7.x
Maybe we could integrate cpanm or cpm in the core?
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What is X in Perl?
cpanfile or cpmfile (NEW!)
plenv
Posts with mentions or reviews of plenv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-02.
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Perl support in Liquidprompt
So here it is, a PR with a new implementation of Perlbrew support to the latest version of Liquidprompt and as a bonus, I also added support for plenv and alternative to Perlbrew for handling your Perl installations.
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Script to install existing modules into new perlbrew env/perl version
If you don’t care that the version isn’t exactly the same 100% of the time, you can use do sh perlbrew clone-modules (that’s plenv migrate-modules for plenv users). If you want real dependency pinning per project you’re better off using something like Carmel on top of perlbrew or plenv so you can specify what versions of each module you want in your cpanfile, run carmel install whenever you switch to another perl version, and then it should just be a matter of letting Carmel find/load the right versions of each module for you with carmel exec …
- Using Docker to Fix a Perl 5.37 Test Failure
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Installing perl with perlbrew
Since perlbrew has wholly met my needs, I have not spent much time with plenv. This is not a critique, just my point of view. One warning contained in the plenv read me is:
- What Happened to Perl 7?
- plenv - Installation of Perl on user directories 2022
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Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021
Nice article. You mention preferring plenv but you only give it passing mention. It would be nice if the article also explained the installation process for that.
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What is X in Perl?
Virtual envs are not as much vital in Perl, but there is plenv or perlbrew
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Perl perlbrew and plenv is same as Python pyenv.
Perl perlbrew and plenv is same as Python pyenv.
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Building a microservice in Perl, part 2: Up and running
(Advanced users may want to investigate using perlbrew, plenv, or berrybrew for managing multiple versions of Perl and installing more recent versions than are included on your system.)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cpm and plenv you can also consider the following projects:
Corinna - Corinna - Bring Modern OO to the Core of Perl
App-perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
berrybrew - Perlbrew for Windows!
perl5 - 🐪 The Perl programming language
roast - 🦋 Raku test suite
plenv-contrib
metacpan-web - Web interface for MetaCPAN
Inline-Perl5 - Use Perl 5 code in a Raku program
voidvault - Bootstrap Void with FDE
Perl-Build
ccheck - Simple, easy to use, minimal consistency checker (hasher) for file archives.