CPAN Service
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A CPAN Service is a software library archive of Perl software modules.
- Context:
- It has over 124,000 Perl software modules.
- It can be interacted with via a CPAN.pm module.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Software Download Service, Software Repository.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN Retrieved:2020-10-2.
- The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer (somewhat like a package manager). Most software on CPAN is free and open source software.
2012a
- http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#What_is_CPAN
- CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a large collection of Perl software and documentation. You can begin exploring from either http://www.cpan.org/ or any of the mirrors listed at http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html.
CPAN is also the name of a Perl module, CPAN.pm, which is used to download and install Perl software from the CPAN archive. This FAQ covers only a little about the CPAN module and you may find the documentation for it by using perldoc CPAN via the command line or on the web at http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/lib/CPAN.pm.
- CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a large collection of Perl software and documentation. You can begin exploring from either http://www.cpan.org/ or any of the mirrors listed at http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html.
2012b
- http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_does_the_CPAN_work
- QUOTE: CPAN works with the generosity and cooperation of thousands of developers, over 264 participating mirrors, many companies, institutions and individuals donating the network bandwidth, storage space and computing power, volunteers who help keep everything together and users whose interest in Perl keep the archive alive and growing.
After an author uploads their module to PAUSE, it will be mirrored to CPAN once an hour and from there, to the rest of the mirrors around the world. There are people who advise authors on their choice of name and namespace for their modules and a few others who answer questions and investigate issues sent to cpan@perl.org.
- QUOTE: CPAN works with the generosity and cooperation of thousands of developers, over 264 participating mirrors, many companies, institutions and individuals donating the network bandwidth, storage space and computing power, volunteers who help keep everything together and users whose interest in Perl keep the archive alive and growing.