Posted by ajt on Thu 17 Dec 2009 at 22:15
Schwern has completed gitPAN, the complete CPAN archive onto github. Now you can access anything in CPAN in all it's gory/beautiful detail!
gitPAN is a project to import the entire history of CPAN (known as BackPAN) into a set of git repositories, one per distribution.
CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network at cpan.org. It is an archive of tens of thousands of Perl modules written by thousands of authors. A good interface to it is search.cpan.org
In order to limit CPAN's size, authors are requested to delete old releases. BackPAN maintains all CPAN releases, even deleted ones, and is a complete history of CPAN. There are only a few BackPAN mirrors such as backpan.perl.org
For more details, including how to access gitPAN, see Schwern's README.
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