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CPAN

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN: xvii ) is a software repository of over 220,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 45,500 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 14,500 contributors. CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an…

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Killer appComposerPHPPyPIPython
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LibrariesPerl modulesDirectoriesPathsInterpreter
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Structure

GzippedTarZIPUploading distributions with PAUSEYml
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CTAN
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CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS, and cpanminus

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CPAN

Nodes65
Edges64
Triples68
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030769
Components1

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CPAN

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related to Influence · 28
CPAN → April, April Fools' Day, CJAN, Composer, CPAN's, CRAN, Experienced Perl, Given, Hackage, Haskell, In, It, Its, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Java, Lua, LuaRocks, Matt's Script Archive, Maven, Node
related to Structure · 15
CPAN → Build, Distributions, Files, In, Makefile, META, New, PAUSE, PAUSE's, Perl Authors Upload Server, PL, Uploading, When, YAML, ZIP
related to Components · 8
CPAN → Antarctica, Each, FTP, Most, Perl, Some, The, There
related to CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS, and cpanminus · 6
CPAN → After, An, CPANPLUS, It, Perl, There
related to External links · 6
CPAN → Comprehensive Archive Networks, Free, January, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Official, The Zen
related to history · 4
CPAN → CTAN, It, October, Perl

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perl modules distributions also used archive distribution network software use may called cpanminus authors often name version pm set core

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GitHubinstance ofbut authors may opt to use a different bug tracking system0.80text
CPANrelated to ComponentsThe0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsEach0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsMost0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsSome0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsFTP0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsPerl0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsThere0.60section
CPANrelated to ComponentsAntarctica0.60section
CPANrelated to CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS, and cpanminusThere0.60section
CPANrelated to CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS, and cpanminusPerl0.60section
CPANrelated to CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS, and cpanminusAn0.60section

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