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Albert,

> > > I would like to known how you manage your gem (ruby) or easyinstall
> > > (python). Do you use ports ? or directly gems or easyinstall ? or both ? 
> > As far as I can, I use ports, for consistency.
> Me too. But what you do when you cannot ? (Like the ports don't exist) ? 
> I see three possibility : 
>     1/ write the ports (unfortunately not for me)
>     2/ wait until someone does (many time it's impossible)
>     3/ use easy_install or gem

I use the solution 3 (cpan in the case of Perl).

Best regards,

olivier

> 
> 
> > 
> > But I am using mostly Perl and CPAN is very well integrated in FreeBSD
> > ports.
> 
> Yes much better than ruby or python. 
> 
> Regards.
>