CPAN/ROADMAP
Welcome to the CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. This document describes the contents of the CPAN, the Archive.
the main document
a large hyperlinked description of CPAN
what to do about files with weird endings
the list of CPAN sites
the recent arrivals
this file
modules/extensions by author
(note: the README file of this directory is for technical reasons
here
)
comp.lang.perl.announce USENET newsgroup archives
documentation
various index views of CPAN
miscellanea
modules/extensions
Perl binaries for all kinds of platforms
do not reinvent the wheel if you can avoid it
-- (please check whether someone somewhere has already coded the script you are planning on writing)
NOTE!
We are hoping to re-open the
scripts
in the summer of 1998. Stay tuned for more news.
source code and patches for Perl itself
and for some auxiliary utilities having to do with Perl or using Perl in some way or another