CPAN/ROADMAP

Welcome to the CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.

This document describes the contents of the CPAN, the Archive.

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README          the main document

CPAN            a large hyperlinked description of CPAN
ENDINGS              what to do about files with weird endings
SITES           the list of CPAN sites
RECENT          the recent arrivals
ROADMAP         this file
authors/             modules/extensions by author

clpa/                comp.lang.perl.announce USENET newsgroup archives
doc/                 documentation
indices/             various index views of CPAN
misc/                miscellanea
modules/             modules/extensions
ports/               Perl binaries for all kinds of platforms
scripts/             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.

src/                 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


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