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 This module comes with a handy script as well: cpan-diff This modules steals a lot of code from cpan-outdated....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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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::...

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....