Many online services that are centered around CPAN attempt to associate multiple uploads by extracting a distribution name from the filename of the upload. For most distributions this is easy as they have used ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build to ...

CPAN::Source fetch, parse, aggregate all CPAN source list for you. Currently CPAN::Source supports 4 files from CPAN mirror. (00whois.xml, contains cpan author information, 01mailrc.txt contains author emails, 02packages.details.txt contains package ...

The init routine asks a few questions and writes a CPAN/Config.pm or CPAN/MyConfig.pm file (depending on what it is currently using). In the following all questions and explanations regarding config variables are collected....

Object representing module metadata....

This module provides an iterator that can be used to look at every file that has ever been released to CPAN, regardless of whether it is still on CPAN. The BackPAN index used was changed in release 0.10, which resulted in the caching mechanism changi...

This module will get the coverage test results from the CPAN Cover <http://cpancover.com> service and let you iterate over them, distribution by distribution. CPAN Cover is a service that runs Devel::Cover on as much of CPAN as possible, and makes th...

This module constructs a list of all dists on CPAN, by default using the MetaCPAN API. The generated index is cached locally. It will let you iterate over the index, either release by release, or distribution by distribution. See below for details of...

This is a largely API compatible rewrite of Parse::CPAN::Packages. Notable differences are * The method add_package of Parse::CPAN::Packages::Fast::Distribution is not implemented * Parse::CPAN::Packages::Fast::Distribution is really a CPAN::Distname...

This table contains information about uploads to CPAN, including who uploaded it, when it was uploaded, and when it was deleted (and thus only available to BackPAN). NOTE: Since files can be deleted from PAUSE, and new files uploaded with the same na...