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CPAN

CPAN = Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
URL: www.cpan.org, searching CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/
Bug Reports: rt.cpan.org
Info about an author: http://search.cpan.org/~USERID (for example http://search.cpan.org/~rene/)

Contributing to CPAN

First: read Pause FAQ

PAUSE

PAUSE = Perl (programming) Author Upload Server.
Whenever anyone creates a Perl module that they think will be useful to the world, they register as a Perl developer at PAUSE so that they can then upload their code to the CPAN.

Links

http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz seems to contain a list of CPAN packages

See also

Example scripts for Perl modules: CPAN and CPAN::Mini
Perl
cpan is a Perl script to easily interact with CPAN from the command line.
R's CRAN or Python's PyPI (Python Package Index).

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