The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use LWP, HTTP::Tiny, Net::FTP and certain external download clients to fetch dist...

• cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line
• App::Cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line
• CPAN::Mirrors - Get CPAN mirror information and select a fast one
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Like WWW::Mechanize, this module automates web browsing with a Perl object. Fetching and rendering of web pages is delegated to the Chrome (or Chromium) browser by starting an instance of the browser and controlling it with Chrome DevTools <https://d...

This script builds the sources for any perl version between 5.004 and bleadperl. The --h option displays all available options. The argument consists of "PERL_VERSION@PATCHNUMBER". The "@" is mandatory, both "PERL_VERSION" and "PATCHNUMER" are option...

• binsearchaperl - binary search perl versions that exhibit changing behaviour
• Perl::Repository::APC - Class modelling "All Perl Changes" repository
• Perl::Repository::APC::BAP - Transform the argument to buildaperl

Important: This module is being replaced by Net::SSH::Any::Test. Development of "Test::SSH" is now mostly limited to bug fixing! In order to test properly Perl modules that use the SSH protocol, a running server and a set of valid authentication cred...

This module is little more than a collection of macros and convenience functions. Net::Pcap does all the real work (of lifting libpcap into perl anyway). Every time I began to write a Net::Pcap application, I had to go figure out all these little thi...

This package is used for setting up, maintaining, and searching a CPAN database consisting of the information stored in the two main CPAN indices: $CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz and $CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz. It should be considered at a...

This is a role which provides an alternate constructor for creating objects using parameters passed in from the command line....

Test::Reporter reports the test results of any given distribution to the CPAN Testers project. Test::Reporter has wide support for various perl5's and platforms. CPAN Testers no longer receives test reports by email, but reports still resemble an ema...

A very generic, callback-driven program to iterate over a CPAN repository. Needs better documentation and tests, but is provided for others to examine, use or contribute to....

Lower level than F:R:M:Recent, handles one recentfile. Whereas a tree is always composed of several recentfiles, controlled by the F:R:M:Recent object. The Recentfile object has to do the bookkeeping for a single timeslice....

This Perl module tests POD links. A given file generates one failure for each broken link found. If no broken links are found, one passing test is generated. This all means that there is no way to know how many tests will be generated, and you will n...

This module provides a common interface for obtaining the RGB values of colors by standard names. The intention is to (1) provide a common module that authors can use with other modules to specify colors by name; and (2) free module authors from havi...

This little package serves to access the symbol table of perl. "Devel::Symdump->rnew(@packages)" returns a symbol table object for all subtrees below @packages. Nested Modules are analyzed recursively. If no package is given as argument, it defaults ...

The module provides access to information provided by RSS feed on <http://cpanratings.perl.org/>, which is basically several of most recent reviews....

pause-checkperms looks at the PAUSE permissions for all modules in CPAN distributions, and lets you know if they're consistent. It will typically be used to check all your CPAN distributions. My PAUSE id is "NEILB", so I'd run the following: pause-ch...

This module provides a common client for constructing metabase facts and the legacy email message sent to CPAN Testers in a way that is properly parsed by the extraction and report tools. It is meant to be used by all the CPAN clients (and standalone...

FEATURES * Autogeneration of POD for Bundle and Task distributions via a build action * Links to required/listed distributions, with or without versions * Links to specific versions of distributions for perl 5.12.0 or newer if a version is specified ...

This little package serves to access the symbol table of perl. "forks::Devel::Symdump->rnew(@packages)" returns a symbol table object for all subtrees below @packages. Nested Modules are analyzed recursively. If no package is given as argument, it de...