Path: usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!pacifier!rainrgnews0!gasco!nntp.teleport.com!usenet From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: CPAN Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 26 Oct 1995 14:28:58 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 97 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <46o5va$33f@maureen.teleport.com> Reply-To: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cis.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:162 comp.lang.perl.misc:9935 Welcome to the CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. CPAN is an extensive collection of Perl related material available by anonymous FTP and thus by the World Wide Web. See below for URLs. CPAN has scripts, documentation, modules, extensions, source code, ports to non-UNIX both in executable and source, and more. As of this writing CPAN contains about 120 MB of Perl goods. The master CPAN site is ftp.funet.fi, one of the largest ftp sites in the world, please read ftp://ftp.funet.fi/README for more general information. The CPAN master is located at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ CPAN is mirrored widely, please select the CPAN site nearest you to keep the networks happy. At the moment the registered CPAN sites are: Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/ Australasia ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/perl/ ftp://ftp.mame.mu.oz.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ Europe ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/computing/unix/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/programming/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/ ftp://orpheu.ci.uminho.pt/pub/lang/perl/ North America ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.delphi.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.sterling.com/programming/languages/perl/ To start just grab the top level README from any of these. We apologise for the diversity of the CPAN path names but having identical and hopefully as short as possible path names across several separate ftp sites is well nigh impossible. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact cpan-adm@ftp.funet.fi by email. The CPAN is brought to you by Perl archivists (aka packrats) who have been accumulating various Perl bits and pieces over the years. Only I have 'signed' this message but without the work, software, and ideas of..= . Neil Bowers Tim Bunce Tom Christiansen Andreas K=F6nig Lee McLoughlin Mark Matthewson Bill Middleton Henk Penning Stephen P. Potter Jared Rhine Randal L. Schwartz Johan Vromans , ...I could not have pulled CPAN together. Many people that deserve mentioning I most likely forgot to mention. The CPAN was slow in coming (the mailing list about it started almost two years ago) but I hope it will be worth the wait to have all about Perl in one place. (and if you know of some Perl material *) that is not yet part of CPAN please keep talking...) Yours Eclectically, The Self-Appointed Master Librarian (OOK!) of the CPAN, Jarkko Hietaniemi, , P.S. Before someone notices: there is one Perlish thingie that CPAN does not and will not have: the USENET comp.lang.perl{,.misc} newsgroup archives (we do stock comp.lang.perl.announce, though). This is firstly simply because there are dedicated newsgroups archivers. Secondly the sheer volume of those groups makes archiving them painf= ul. Thirdly a raw archive of newsgroup is a waste of time (and space): some sort of threading or in general more intelligent database would be needed before a newsgroup archival is worth anything, the S/N ratio of c.l.p.m is (and c.l.p was) quite low. .