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...

This script provides a command interface (not a shell) to CPAN. At the moment it uses CPAN.pm to do the work, but it is not a one-shot command runner for CPAN.pm. Options -a Creates a CPAN.pm autobundle with CPAN::Shell->autobundle. -A module [ modul...

This package has the same functionality as CPAN.pm, but tries to prevent the usage of compiled extensions during its own execution. Its primary purpose is a rescue in case you upgraded perl and broke binary compatibility somehow....

Discover which Perl packages/versions are different in your environment compared to CPAN or your darkpan (pinto or orepan2 or whatever). This module comes with a handy script as well: cpan-diff This modules steals a lot of code from cpan-outdated....

CPAN::WAIT adds some comands to the CPAN "shell()" to perform searches on a WAIT server. It connects to a WAIT server using a simple protocoll resembling NNTP as described in RFC977. It uses the WAIT::Client module to handle this connection. This in ...

CPAN::Mini provides a simple mechanism to build and update a minimal mirror of the CPAN on your local disk. It contains only those files needed to install the newest version of every distribution. Those files are: * 01mailrc.txt.gz * 02packages.detai...

Software distributions released to the CPAN include a META.json or, for older distributions, META.yml, which describes the distribution, its contents, and the requirements for building and installing the distribution. The data structure stored in the...

There have been any number of scripts and modules written that contain as part of their functionality some form of locally stored partial mirror of the CPAN dataset. CPAN::Cache does the same thing, except that in addition it has the feature that the...

CPAN::Audit is a module and a database at the same time. It is used by cpan-audit command line application to query for vulnerabilities....

CPAN::Local is a framework for creating custom CPAN implementations. It is to your private repositories as Dist::Zilla is to your distributions. The individual tasks related to mirror management are handled by separate plugins, and those plugins can ...

First things first: this is a pretty special-needs module. It's for people who are writing tools that will operate against a copy of the CPAN (or something just like it), and who need data to test those tools against. Because the real CPAN is constan...

CPAN::Admin is a subclass of CPAN that adds the commands "register" and "modsearch" to the CPAN shell. "register" calls "get" on the named module, assembles a couple of informations (description, language), and calls Netscape with the -remote argumen...

This bundle includes CPAN.pm as the base module. When CPAN installs this bundle it tries immediately to enable Term::ReadLine so that you do not need to restart your CPAN session. In this bundle Term::ReadLine::Perl is preferred over Term::ReadLine::...

Following the release of CPAN::Mini, the CPAN::Mini::Inject module was created to add additional distributions into a minicpan mirror. While it was created for use with a minicpan mirror, similar functionality can be reused in other situations. CPAN:...

Alpha Status The plugin system in the CPAN shell was introduced in version 2.07 and is still considered experimental. How Plugins work? See "Plugin support" in CPAN....